the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace.

for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”

a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,

And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms.

Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”

Him Whom They Have Pierced

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

Stephen Is Seized

And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.

When he came and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose,

And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled.

But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”

but Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.

And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,