This word is commonly used to mean salvation. In Scripture, however, it is only so used in Acts 10:35, and perhaps Eph. 1:6. This, however, is literally “hath graced us.” Elsewhere it is always used practically, and alludes not to salvation, but to the Christian’s walk and ways. Such passages as Rom. 14:18, and 2 Cor. 5:9, are most mischievous if misapplied. The word used is elsewhere rendered “well-pleasing,” Rom. 12:2; Phil. 4:18; Col. 3:20; Heb. 13:21. It would be well if Christians would believe that, as to salvation, Christ has been accepted (Lev. 1:4) for us, and that our pair now is not to seek to patch up His work, but to do our own, and see that we are practically “acceptable to the Lord.”