In Mormonism, grace is God’s help and strength that makes it possible for people to do what is necessary for eternal life. Members are taught that salvation comes “by grace, after all we can do” (2 Nephi 25:23). Grace is often described as enabling power — the divine assistance that helps a person keep commandments, repent, and endure to the end. It is essential, but it does not replace the individual’s responsibility to act.
This understanding means grace is not seen as God’s free and complete gift of salvation, but as help given to make obedience possible. Many Mormons express gratitude for grace as a boost, strength, or supplement to their own efforts.
Biblical Christianity, however, teaches that grace is God’s unearned favor by which sinners are forgiven and saved completely apart from works (Ephesians 2:8–9; Romans 11:6). Grace is not God making obedience possible, but God freely giving eternal life in Christ because Jesus has already fulfilled all righteousness on our behalf.
