2 Peter 3:18a But grow in grace,

As I said yesterday, examine grace as a gift but understand what it does, so that it might be used and not to place it back in the box and put it away on the back shelf of your closest.

John 1:14,16 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

Another way to look at John 1:16 is to say grace received is grace extended. Our Lord is gracious, He is grace and truth. If we are to be conformed into the image of our Lord Jesus Christ as we are promised in Romans 8:29, then His characteristic of grace is to become our characteristic in conformance.

Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Grace abides in us to be gracious to others, so that they might come to know that side of our gracious Lord.  Grace is a resident characteristic of Christ. Are we instantly gracious? I wasn’t. Grace had to perform its transformative work in me in order for me to develop that characteristic. It was not natural.

Ephesians 3:7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

Romans 12:2-3 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

We have come full circle as grace is tied to faith.