the Lord Jesus Christ” makes evident. In Rom 5, for example, “peace” is what characterizes (or should characterize, if the verb of v 1 is subjunctive and not indicative) the believer’s life (5:1–11) because of the “grace” brought by Christ (5:12–21). So “grace” and “peace,” whether joined or mentioned separately, appear frequently in the blessings of Paul’s letters, as well as in those of other NT letters (e.g., Rom 15:33; 16:20 [perhaps also v 24]; 1 Cor 16:23; 2 Cor 13:11, 14; Gal 6:16, 18; Eph