Amazing Grace
—How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost—But now I’m found.
Was blind, but now I see.

Twas grace
that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed.

Lyrics written John Newton 1772

John 8:1-11 NLT
Jesus returned to the Mount of Olives, 2 but early the next morning he was back again at the Temple. A crowd soon gathered, and he sat down and taught them. 3 As he was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd.

4 “Teacher,” they said to Jesus, “this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 The law of Moses says to stone her. What do you say?”

6 They were trying to trap him into saying something they could use against him, but Jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger. 7 They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, “All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!” 8 Then he stooped down again and wrote in the dust.

9 When the accusers heard this, they slipped away one by one, beginning with the oldest, until only Jesus was left in the middle of the crowd with the woman. 10 Then Jesus stood up again and said to the woman, “Where are your accusers? Didn’t even one of them condemn you?”

Paul Writes to Ephesians
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
(Ephesians 2:1 NIV)

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[fn] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.(Ephesians 2:3 NIV)

But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much,(Ephesians 2:4 NLT)

that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)(Ephesians 2:5 NLT)