Grace — Page 2
Verses 11–20 of 63
James 4:6 KJV
“But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.”
Context & Meaning
God's grace is not rationed, He gives more grace. And its flow is directed: away from the self-sufficient proud and toward the humble and dependent.
Romans 3:24 KJV
“Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”
Context & Meaning
Justification, being declared righteous before God, is freely (as a gift, without cost to the recipient) by grace through the redemption Christ accomplished. The "freely" is emphatic: no contribution of ours.
2 Peter 3:18 KJV
“But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.”
Context & Meaning
Peter's final command in his final letter is to grow in grace, meaning the Christian life is not a static standing in grace but a dynamic progression into an ever-deepening experience of God's unmerited favor.
2 Corinthians 9:8 KJV
“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.”
Context & Meaning
The abundance of grace does not simply benefit the recipient, it overflows into every good work. Grace received becomes grace expressed, producing a cycle of abundance from God through the believer to the world.
Psalm 84:11 KJV
“For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”
Context & Meaning
Grace and glory are promised together, God gives both His present, sustaining favor (grace) and His ultimate, eternal honor (glory) to those who walk with Him. And no genuinely good thing is withheld from them.
Ephesians 2:1 KJV
“And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;”
Ephesians 2:2 KJV
“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:”
Ephesians 2:3 KJV
“Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”
Ephesians 2:4 KJV
“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,”
Ephesians 2:5 KJV
“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)”