The antithesis here seems to be between not faith and works but, by implication, grace and works; that is, the ground upon which God
freely bestows his grace and gifts to men and what is apparently the (failing) attempts by men to earn that bestowal and ground the divine bestowal on merit.
He has destined us in love to be his children through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace which
he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
And this love is characterized, once again, as qualifying the nature of God's power: «Not that you, Divine Omnipotence and Eternal Wisdom, gave unwillingly, as though compelled by some sort of necessity, but rather that
you freely bestowed your love, out of the boundless flood of your loving generosity, upon an unworthy and ungrateful creature.»
«He destined us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace which
he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
True salvation is a terribly costly gift, but it is a gift
freely bestowed.
We disclose that we dread Love, the Love
freely bestowed on us.
Grace is God's gift,
freely bestowed upon all.
Not exact matches
God
freely and completely
bestows the Godself in the encounter with humans, yet remains ineffable because we creatures are incapable of fully receiving or understanding the one who is imparted.
His act is an outrage against «mama - allpa (Mother Earth)[who]
bestows water
freely, the same for everyone» (Agua, p. 27) Representing nature in general, water is benign but stern: the same stream that irrigates may also flood; bathing may end in drowning.
One needn't expect the stellar treatment
bestowed upon Van Dyke's historic first Disney film Mary Poppins, but it should have been simple to capture some of the actor's thoughts on this film while he was
freely talking about the other.
Three of those weapon types are used whilst underwater (mercifully, you begin the game with a breathing apparatus that allows you to move
freely underwater with no breath level or other enforced time limit), and there are items to be found throughout the environment which have their own set of skills (for example, a Hazmat Suit
bestows 6 usable skills when equipped).
But Trimble cautioned that contractions «are like kisses:
bestowed too
freely, they lose their effect, in fact seem cheap.»