Dictionary of Biblical Words:
The love of God brought into connection with the need of man. God is love and light. God manifest in the flesh is full of grace and truth. We are said to be “justified by grace,” by which is meant that it is the free love of God that has provided the means of our justification.
Concise Bible Dictionary:
The favor and graciousness shown by God to guilty man. It stands in contrast to law (John 1:17; Gal. 5:4); also to works and to desert or reward (Rom. 4:4; Rom. 11:6): “by grace ye are saved” (Eph. 2:5,8). The grace of God is vouchsafed to the saints all along the way: we find nearly all the Epistles commence and end with the invocation of grace on the churches: whereas when individuals are addressed MERCY is added (1 Tim. 1:2; 2 Tim. 1:2; Titus 1:4; 2 John 1:3). The different aspects of grace and mercy have been thus set forth: “Grace refers more to the source and character of the sentiment; mercy to the state of the person who is its object. Grace may give me glory; mercy contemplates some need in me. Mercy is great in the greatness of the need; grace in the thought of the person exercising it.”
Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:
Transliteration:
euprepeia
Meaning:
from a compound of 2095 and 4241; good suitableness, i.e. gracefulness