Gloss
grace, the state of kindness and favor toward someone, often with a focus on a benefit given to the object; by extension: gift, benefit; credit; words of kindness and benefit: thanks, blessing
Forms of the word
Dictionary
χάρις, -ιτος, ἡ
Greek transliteration
charis
Simplified transliteration
charis
Numbers
Strong's number
5485
GK Number
5921
Statistics
Frequency in New Testament
155
Morphology of Biblical Greek Tag
n-3c(1)
Definition
, 1 Pet. 2:19, 20;
Greek-English Concordance for χάρις
| Acts 24:27 | When two years had passed, Felix was replaced by Porcius Festus, and wanting to curry favor (charita | χάριτα | acc sg fem) with the Jews, Felix left Paul in prison. |
| Acts 25:3 | and asking him to do them a favor (charin | χάριν | acc sg fem) against Paul; they urged Festus to transfer him to Jerusalem, for they were forming a plot to kill him along the way. |
| Acts 25:9 | But Festus, wanting to curry favor (charin | χάριν | acc sg fem) with the Jews, responded to Paul, saying, “Do you want to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?” |
| Romans 1:5 | Through him we have received grace (charin | χάριν | acc sg fem) and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of his name, |
| Romans 1:7 | To all who are in Rome, loved by God and called to be saints: Grace (charis | χάρις | nom sg fem) to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| Romans 3:24 | They are justified freely by his grace (chariti | χάριτι | dat sg fem) through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, |
| Romans 4:4 | Now to the one who works, his wages are not credited as a gift (charin | χάριν | acc sg fem), but as an obligation. |
| Romans 4:16 | For this reason the promise is based on faith, that it may depend on grace (charin | χάριν | acc sg fem) and be made certain to all his descendants, not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who share the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. |
| Romans 5:2 | through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace (charin | χάριν | acc sg fem) in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of sharing the glory of God. |
| Romans 5:15 | But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one, much more did the grace (charis | χάρις | nom sg fem) of God and the gift that came by the grace (chariti | χάριτι | dat sg fem) of the one man Jesus Christ overflow to the many. |
| Romans 5:17 | For if by the transgression of the one man death reigned through that one, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace (charitos | χάριτος | gen sg fem) and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. |
| Romans 5:20 | Now the law came in so that the transgression might increase; but where sin increased, grace (charis | χάρις | nom sg fem) increased all the more, |
| Romans 5:21 | so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace (charis | χάρις | nom sg fem) might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. |
| Romans 6:1 | What then shall we say? — “Let us continue in sin so that grace (charis | χάρις | nom sg fem) may increase”? |
| Romans 6:14 | For sin will not have mastery over you, since you are not under law but under grace (charin | χάριν | acc sg fem). |
| Romans 6:15 | What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace (charin | χάριν | acc sg fem)? By no means! |
| Romans 6:17 | But thanks (charis | χάρις | nom sg fem) be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that pattern of teaching to which you were committed, |
| Romans 7:25 | Thanks (charis | χάρις | nom sg fem) be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. |
| Romans 11:5 | So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace (charitos | χάριτος | gen sg fem). |
| Romans 11:6 | And if it is by grace (chariti | χάριτι | dat sg fem), it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace (charis | χάρις | nom sg fem) would no longer be grace (charis | χάρις | nom sg fem). |
| Romans 12:3 | For by the grace (charitos | χάριτος | gen sg fem) given to me I say to every one among you that he should not think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think with sober judgment, as God has assigned to each a measure of faith. |
| Romans 12:6 | having gifts that differ according to the grace (charin | χάριν | acc sg fem) given to us. If your gift is prophecy, then prophesy in proportion to your faith; |
| Romans 15:15 | Nevertheless on certain subjects I have written to you rather boldly so as to refresh your memory, because of the grace (charin | χάριν | acc sg fem) that was given me by God |
| Romans 16:20 | The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. May the grace (charis | χάρις | nom sg fem) of our Lord Jesus be with you. |
| 1 Corinthians 1:3 | Grace (charis | χάρις | nom sg fem) to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. |
