Grace of God: General Scriptures Concerning

Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth. …

When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness. …

You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.

“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?

Does it delight the Almighty that you are righteous? Does He profit if your ways are blameless?

Unless the LORD had been my helper, I would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence. …

On the day I called, You answered me; You emboldened me and strengthened my soul.

For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

Again the one with the likeness of a man touched me and strengthened me.

“Do not be afraid, you who are highly precious,” he said. “Peace be with you! Be strong now; be very strong!” As he spoke with me, I was strengthened and said, “Speak, my lord, for you have strengthened me.”

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—

I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.

While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.

And now, Lord, consider their threats, and enable Your servants to speak Your word with complete boldness,

…as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”

But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:

And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction, …

Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.

However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.

Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.

…through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. …

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many! …

Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac. …

In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

I always thank my God for you because of the grace He has given you in Christ Jesus. …

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.

For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased

…to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

He predestined us for adoption as His sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will, …

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

…in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

…not by works, so that no one can boast.

I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,

Now to each one of us grace has been given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.

…because I know that through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, my distress will turn out for my deliverance.

For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace and peace to you.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

…so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

…who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.

And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

…keep yourselves in the love of God as you await the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.

Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—

…to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord before all time, and now, and for all eternity. Amen.

Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.