as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

 (c) In the New Testament there is always the idea of sheer universality. Again and again Paul uses the word grace in connection with the reception of the Gentiles into the family of God. He thanks God for the grace given to the Corinthians in Jesus Christ ( 1 Corinthians 1:4). He talks of the grace of God bestowed on the Churches of Macedonia ( 2 Corinthians 8:1). He talks of the Galatians being called into the grace of Christ ( Galatians 1:6). The hope which came to the Thessalonians came through grace ( 2 Thessalonians 2:16). It was God's grace which made Paul an apostle to the Gentiles ( 1 Corinthians 15:10). It was by the grace of God that he moved amongst the Corinthians ( 2 Corinthians 1:12). It was by grace that God called him and separated him from his mother's womb ( Galatians 1:15). It is the grace given to him by God which enables him to write boldly to the Church at Rome ( Romans 15:15). To Paul the great demonstration of the grace of God was the reception of the Gentiles into the Church and his apostleship to them. 