“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
“Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!”
“But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in transgressions.”
By Grace
“by grace you have been saved”
“But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things that we had done, but because of his mercy.”
To Hope
There is longing in the heart of God for humanity—the us Paul says here is Jew and Gentile – so all of us —to be restored to the highest and best that he had planned for them [1]”
“And God has raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Jesus Christ.” (v. 6-7)
Through Faith
“For is it by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast.” (2:8).
Your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
, “we know that man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.”
