Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:… Once there was a poor woman who greatly desired a bunch of grapes from the king's greenhouse for her sick child; so she took half a crown, and went to the king's gardener, and tried to purchase the grapes, but was rudely sent away. A second effort with more money met with a similar repulse. It so happened that the king's daughter heard the angry words of the gardener, and the crying of the poor woman, and inquired into the matter. When she had related her story, the princess said, "My good woman, you were mistaken. My father is not a merchant, but a king: his business is not to sell, but to give"; whereupon she plucked a fine bunch from the vine, and gently dropped it into the woman's apron. So the poor woman obtained as a free gift what the labour of many days and nights had been unable to procure for her. Parallel Verses KJV: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:WEB: for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, |
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