Bible verses about grace
Grace is the word for what is given before it is deserved, and Scripture spends as much time on what it goes on to do as on what it cancels — one letter calls it a schoolmaster. These passages are set out with a sentence on each.
From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. — John 1:16 · WEB
But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.” — Acts 15:11 · WEB
Peter settles the salvation question from something God did, and ends by putting Jews and Gentiles on the same footing in the same sentence.
Read the comment on Peter's evidence: God gave them the Spirit
being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, — Romans 3:24 · WEB
The letter turns on two words, and the righteousness revealed is given freely to the same all who fell short.
The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly, — Romans 5:20 · WEB
The two-Adam summary lands in strict parallel, the law's entry is explained, and grace out-abounds sin to reign through righteousness.
For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. — Romans 6:14 · WEB
The commands begin — a throne denied, weapons reassigned — and the promise under them locates freedom in a change of regime.
And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work. — Romans 11:6 · WEB
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. — 1 Corinthians 15:10 · WEB
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich. — 2 Corinthians 8:9 · WEB
The appeal is explicitly not a command, and the reason given is a two-way exchange stated in one sentence.
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. — 2 Corinthians 12:9 · WEB
A request is refused three times and answered with something else, and the refusal is the letter's whole argument delivered to the man making it.
I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!” — Galatians 2:21 · WEB
The most quoted sentence in the letter is in the perfect tense, and the paragraph ends by pricing the alternative.
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — Ephesians 2:8 · WEB
Three verses that exclude works and then command them, and the order between the two is the whole point.
who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal, — 2 Timothy 1:9 · WEB
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, — Titus 2:11 · WEB
Grace is not only what pardons the past; it is the schoolmaster of the present, and the training is its own work.
that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. — Titus 3:7 · WEB
The hinge of the letter: what we were is answered not by what we did but by what appeared — kindness, mercy, and a washing.
Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need. — Hebrews 4:16 · WEB
Three verses turn the argument from exposure to access, and the qualification offered is that he knows how it feels.
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” — James 4:6 · WEB
The sharpest address in the letter is followed immediately by the most generous sentence in it.
But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. — 1 Peter 5:10 · WEB