Paul’s Integrity

For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

For all things are for your sakes, so that grace, having spread to more and more people, will cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

Their Ministry Commended

And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain—

Great Generosity

Now, brothers and sisters, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia,

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

And God is able to make all grace overflow to you, so that, always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;

while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.

Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

Distortion of the Gospel

I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel,

But when He who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace was pleased

and recognizing the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.

I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.”

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by the Law; you have fallen from grace.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He favored us in the Beloved.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our wrongdoings, according to the riches of His grace

even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

so that in the ages to come He might show the boundless riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

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

if indeed you have heard of the administration of God’s grace which was given to me for you;

of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of God’s grace which was given to me according to the working of His power.

To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ,