But by the remarkable grace of God I am what I am and His grace toward me was not without effect In fact I worked harder than all of the apostles though it was not I but the grace of God His unmerited favor and blessing which was with me

May the Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are and bless you as He has promised you That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of His calling what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints

It shall come to pass in that day That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder And his yoke from your neck And the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing oil

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord

And I said to the king ldquo If it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor in your sight I ask that you send me to Judah to the city of my fathers rsquo tombs that I may rebuild it

But God who is rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us even when we were dead in trespasses made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus

Who found favor before God and asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob

And all those who heard them kept them in their hearts saying ldquo What kind of child will this be rdquo And the hand of the Lord was with him

When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him ldquo I am Almighty God walk before Me and be blameless 2 And I will make My covenant between Me and you and will multiply you exceedingly rdquo 3 Then Abram fell on his face and God talked with him saying 4 ldquo As for Me behold My covenant is with you and you shall be a father of many nations 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram but your name shall be Abraham for I have made you a father of many nations 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful and I will make nations of you and kings shall come from you 7 And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant to be God to you and your descendants after you 8 Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger all the land of Canaan as an everlasting possession and I will be their God rdquo

The king loved Esther more than all the other women and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins so he set the royal crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti