The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ closes this letter with the customary apostolic blessing. Though subscription details vary across manuscripts, the epistle bears clear internal marks of being written from Rome and sent by Epaphroditus, bearing witness to Paul's imprisonment for the faith.
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Grace is God's free favour flowing out in all good things, purchased by Christ's merit and applied through His intercession. May it enlighten, sanctify, comfort, and quicken you more and more, so that knowing the exceeding riches you have in Him, you glorify Him eminently and abundantly in all things.
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This closing benediction of grace is Paul's own handwritten token in every epistle, marking it as genuinely his. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, purchased by His merit and applied by His intercession, is what seals and authenticates all his letters.
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