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If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

John Piper

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John Piper
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 11
Clergyman
Non-Fiction Writer
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Chattanooga
Tennessee
John Stephen Piper
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