GRACE ? — Hive

No, grace is not something you qualify for by receiving it!
Grace already belongs to humanity without their permission!
Here's Romans 5:17 again, "Death no longer has the final say. Life rules! If the effect of one man’s crash-landing engaged humanity in a death-dominated lifestyle how much more advantaged is the very same mankind now that they are the recipients of the boundless reservoirs of grace, empowering them to enjoy the dominion of life through the gift of righteousness because of that one man, Jesus Christ. Grace is out of all proportion in superiority to the transgression. (I've translated the word paraptoma, crash landing, from para closest possible proximity and pipto, to descend from a higher place to a lower – to stop flying. No wonder he urges us in Col 3:1-3 to engage our thoughts with the things that are above, where we are co-elevated and jointly enthroned in the heavenlies together with Christ!The words οἱ λαμβάνοντες - oi lambanontes do not mean, to believingly accept, but simply the recipients! [the Present Active Participle Nominative] The word perisseia περισσεία means super abundantly; that which exceeds all boundaries. Of course it doesn't take faith out of the equation! It gives context to faith! See verses 1&2 of Romans 5 in the Mirror Bible.

Faith isn't what you do in order to; it's what happens to you because of!)