Favour

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

The angel said to her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

Let us 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.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

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.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Suddenly there came from the sky a sound like the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will by no means pass away.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely bestowed favor on us in the Beloved,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,