wouldn’t be grace—because grace is free, unmerited favor from God. We have to receive it freely or not at all. Grace—Acquired Through Redemption (verse 24) With “redemption,” Paul draws a word from the economic vocabulary of his day—a term used to describe the purchase of slaves in the marketplace in New Testament times. Even in the sad history of our own country—the slave trade in which John Newton was involved—slaves would be brought into a marketplace like cattle. Those who were there to purchase