For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
Parallel translations
- WEB For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
- KJV For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
- ESV For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
- NKJV For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
- NASB For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people,
- NLT For the grace of God has been revealed, bringing salvation to all people.
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Quick answer
The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation available to all kinds of people. It matters because grace, revealed in Christ, is the foundation and motive for all godly living.
Overview
Paul now grounds all the preceding exhortations in the gospel: God's saving grace has 'appeared' in the coming of Jesus Christ. This grace offers salvation to people of every kind, not just one group. The transformed lives commanded throughout the chapter flow from this appearing of grace.
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- Eph 2:8For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
- 1 Tim 2:4who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
- Isa 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
- Heb 2:9But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.
- Eph 2:5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
- 2 Th 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,
- John 1:16–17From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.
- John 1:14The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
- Rom 5:15But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many!
- Eph 1:6–7to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.
- Isa 52:10The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.
- Acts 20:24But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus—the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
- Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- Acts 11:23When he arrived and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to abide in the Lord with all their hearts.
- Isa 60:1–3Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
- Luke 3:6And all humanity will see God’s salvation.’”
- Ps 117:1–2Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!
- Rom 5:2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
- Rom 11:5–6In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
- 1 Tim 1:14And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
- Gal 2:21I do not set aside the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for nothing.
- Titus 3:4–5But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
- Ps 96:1–3Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.
- Ps 96:10Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.
- Zech 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
- Rom 4:4–5Now the wages of the worker are not credited as a gift, but as an obligation.
- Acts 13:43After the synagogue was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who spoke to them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.
- 2 Cor 6:1As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
- Luke 24:47and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
- Col 1:6that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood the grace of God.
- Mark 16:15And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
- 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
- Zech 4:7What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”
- Ps 98:1–3A Psalm. Sing to the LORD a new song, for He has done wonders; His right hand and holy arm have gained Him the victory.
- Matt 28:19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
- John 1:9The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world.
- Isa 49:6He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
- Rom 5:20–21The law came in so that the trespass would increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
- Rom 15:9–19so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”
- Acts 13:47For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”
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