Let's look at the following verses:

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree..." (Gal. 3:13)
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. (Gal. 4:4-7)
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession who are zealous for good works. (Titus 2:11-14)

What is one redeemed from? For the Jew, who was once under the Law but has now come to His Messiah, he has now been redeemed from the curse of not fulfilling it perfectly: 'For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."' (Gal. 3:10)

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. (1 Pet. 1:18-19)

To the Gentile who comes to faith in Christ, we have been redeemed from our FORMER SINFUL WAY OF LIFE: "that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind". (Eph. 2:22-23)

Grace delivers from God's wrath...

And you he made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. (Eph. 2:1-3)

Paul demonstrates Jesus taught the wrath of God on those who reject Him...

he who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. (1 Thess. 9-10)

Grace causes the sinner steeped in sin, and therefore spiritually dead, to be made alive by faith in Christ. The unbeliever who was ONCE a son of disobedience, ONCE a child of WRATH but is now a child of God. Paul in his epistle to the Colossians, sums it up thus:

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. (Col. 1:13-14)

This initial 'phase' of grace is wholly attributed to God and is the work of justification, redemption and reconciliation to God. This is distinguished from the lifetime process of sanctification that the new believer must undergo. While grace freely justifies, sanctification requires work on the part of the believer as we shall see.

For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. (Rom. 5:10-11)
And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight - if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister. (Col. 1:21-23)

Grace also freely RECONCILES us to God.

It is common practice to ask if one has been 'saved'. Where do we derive this word from?

...by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. (Rom. 5:9)

Grace causes us who were ONCE dead in sin to be made alive in Christ. Note the emphasis on 'once'. The very process of being made alive is synonymous with the now believer having DONE AWAY WITH SIN. To continue to sin after one is justified is to return to the state of deadness that one was in prior to his conversion.

...knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. (Rom. 6:6)
...that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts... (Eph. 4:22)
Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds... (Col. 3:9)

Grace is also what delivers us from being children of wrath to being accepted in the Beloved and the family of God.

...just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. (Eph. 1:4-6)

The Ephesian converts to Christ were once 'children of WRATH'...

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. (Eph. 2:1-3)

The wrath of God upon the unbeliever and those who reject Christ is the everlasting torment that he/she will be subject to in the Lake of Fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

Grace was the means by which the Ephesian believers who once were pagans and practiced and indulged in every conceivable sin and work of the flesh had been 'saved'. They were now no longer children of wrath but children of God, having been saved from their former sinful way of life which would result in the wrath of God being poured out upon them and now adopted into His family...

having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. (Eph. 1:5-6)
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father". The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs - heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. (Rom. 8:14-17)

Grace renders the once sinner, now believer, to become a SLAVE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS.

But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. (Rom. 6:17-18)

True, Biblical grace supernaturally liberates the believer from his bondage and slavery to sin. Paul used this analogy of slavery that his audience was familiar with to illustrate his point reiterating Jesus' teaching: "Jesus answered them, 'Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave to sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed'" (John 8:34-36)

Now, consider the following:

And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. (Rom. 6: 17-22)

Paul expounded with an analogy the justification of the sinner who puts his faith in Christ. The new believer has been freed from his slavery to sin and is now a slave to righteousness. He has not merely been set free from his former way of life; he has now become enslaved to a new life of righteousness. Paul warned that the sins which the unbeliever previously embraced would end in spiritual death, BUT justification which frees him from his life of sin now makes him a slave of God and righteousness leading to holiness and in the END, EVERLASTING LIFE. Paul emphasized the need for the PRACTICE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, leading to holiness which IN TURN would result in everlasting life. But, there are conditions. THIS is the grace that Paul, under the tutelage and revelation of the Spirit of God taught and affirmed.

Having outlined God's role of reconciliation, Paul now shifts the focus away from God to the responsibility of the believer, that is to CONTINUE IN THE FAITH, GROUNDED and STEADFAST in the gospel.

"For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all me, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age" (Titus 2:11-12, NKJV)
And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear. (1 Pet. 1:17)

Paul, in his epistle to Titus, who he addressed as a 'true son in the faith', defined 'grace' for us. Grace has two components, one that arises from God and the other having man, the believer in Christ, as the recipient. It therefore involves two parties, God the initiator and giver, and man the recipient, and must be treated as such. God, in Christ Jesus, having fulfilled the work of justification (the stance of being made righteous in His sight) now places the responsibility and duty of the working out of grace in one's life squarely on the shoulders of the believer. Grace therefore TEACHES us to both deny ungodliness and unrighteousness and deliberately pursue a life tempered by spiritual sobriety, righteously and godly. Grace then is the teacher that puts us to WORK. Make no mistake; the lazy, apathetic, compromising interpretation of grace that is taught today, and re enforced in much of Christendom, is wholly UNBIBLICAL and must be rejected only in place of grace in its truest and purest form, BIBLICAL grace. If it is grace that brings about our salvation and Paul teaches that its chief attribute, GODLY LIVING, is the work of the believer, then it stands to reason that the ungodly will NOT be saved. To clarify, ungodly 'believer' is not saved.

A thoroughly unbiblical, dangerous and patently false teaching that has pervaded the Church and grown rampant is that a believer, having once professed faith in Christ, will remain in the state of being saved regardless of their lifestyle and conduct. The basis of this teaching is certainly not scriptural, and will lead into deception those who fail to examine the clear text of the scriptures for themselves. Tragically, the result of this grand, Satanically inspired delusion will result in the eternal damnation of many an individual who ONCE believed, but failed to work out their salvation with the utmost fear and trembling. (Philip. 2:12)

"Therefore, brethren, we are debtors - not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live." Rom. 8:12-13

When is the last time, if ever, we heard this warning Paul issued to the Roman CHURCH being addressed or taught? He did not mince words; every BELIEVER who lives according to his flesh WILL DIE (spiritually). Only those who put to death the deeds of the body would live (spiritually). Paul emphasizes this repeatedly, warning believers that those who practice sin would NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

"But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as it is fitting for the saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God." Eph. 5:3-5

Paul then goes on to warn: "Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them (vs. 6-7). The deception lies in a believer endorsing and believing the teachings that one can partake of these sins and still be granted entry into the kingdom of God and Christ. The very deception that Paul warned against has emerged as one of the most rampant teachings in the Church today, a profusion of 'empty words' and semantics being employed to justify this warped and unbiblical view that 'grace will cover it all' or that one can 'never out-sin one's salvation'.

Paul reiterates this to the Galatian church: "Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." (Gal. 5:19-21)

Jesus in His revelation to John, has the final word: He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." (Rev. 21:7-8)

Clearly, grace does not 'cover' these sinful practices and grant you access into God's eternal kingdom. Or do we presume to be greater than Jesus or His servant Paul? Salvation is CONDITIONAL. While justification, redemption, reconciliation, freedom from slavery to sin and fear, being saved from God's wrath, adoption into His family and being accepted in the Beloved are all FREELY BESTOWED upon the sinner who comes to faith in Christ, THIS IS WHERE THE FREEDOM ENDS. Paul warned that the practice of sin would end in CERTAIN SPIRITUAL DEATH:

"For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death." Rom. 6:20-21

The sinner who ONCE practiced these which resulted in death will also as a CHRISTIAN forfeit salvation if he continues in these practices: SIN RESULTS IN DEATH. Scripture is abundantly clear. Sadly, this is rarely taught in the Church today. Yes, we hear the occasional, hesitant, almost apologetic 'grace is not a license to sin', but hardly if EVER the message that the Christian who persists in sin will NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. God will require an account from the teachers of the Word who failed to exhort and warn, who watered down, compromised the Word out of fear of causing offence.

The writer of the epistle to the Hebrew church warns:

"Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright." (Heb. 12:14-16)

He does not present holiness as an option, but as a REQUISITE for salvation. he also emphasizes and warns that it is entirely possible for one, having received God's grace, to then FALL SHORT of it by bitterness and unrighteousness.

It was the same apostle Paul who expounded at great length the merits of salvation (justification) imparted freely by the GRACE of God. It is the same Paul who warned believers that if they practiced a lifestyle of unrighteousness they would NOT inherit the kingdom of God. (Rom. 1:18; Rom. 2:8-9a; 1 Cor. 15:50;) He further warned them to not be deceived as to the contrary, the very teaching that the Church has been deceived by today.

When people justify the abuse and excesses of 'grace' with the argument that salvation has 'nothing to do with our works', it is based on a faulty foundation of what the grace of God does and does not do. Every time Paul spoke of us being saved, 'not by works', he was referring to the 'justification' part of salvation, the state of a sinner being declared wholly righteous in the presence of God by sole virtue of the blood and Name of Christ (Eph.2:12-13). He was NOT by any means inferring to that one who has become a believer is granted immunity from the eternal consequences of habitual and willful persistence in sin, or that God will overlook and pardon those Christians who backslide or who refuse to repent and forsake their sin.

"Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude v. 3-4 ('Lewdness' is rendered thus by Strong's: "unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness, insolence")

Even in his day, Jude had encountered ungodly men who had infiltrated the Church, ostensibly as believers but both denying Christ and PERVERTING GOD'S GRACE. He points out that these men had been marked out for condemnation.

"But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life." Rev. 21:27 (New Jerusalem)
"But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death (Rev. 21:8)

The 'unbelieving' are clearly referencing non-Christians. The 'abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars' includes EVERYONE, BOTH believer AND non-believer that indulge in these sins that will be assigned to the lake of fire. 'All liars' should reiterate that Christian as well as non-Christian liars will share this same fate.

It only takes a cursory reading of Christ's strong rebuke to the churches (Rev. 2 and 3) to grasp HIS perspective and anger directed toward what we as believers today might dismiss as trivial or 'covered by grace'. Christ did NOT seem to think so!

"Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. And i gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works. (Rev. 2:20-23)

Christ here is warning the church of Thyatira that He would bring great tribulation upon HIS SERVANTS who participated in the adultery (physical and spiritual) that Jezebel was perpetrating unless they REPENTED of their SIN. He did not overlook, minimize, disregard it or remotely suggest that His 'finished work and grace would cover it all'. Rather, He made it abundantly clear that they would receive ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS. The Church today hesitates in naming sin where it should be named, and shirks the call to repentance. We ought not to water down the standards the Head has set for His Body, neither compromise or obfuscate.

Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place - unless you repent." (Rev. 2:4-5)

The church at Ephesus received praise from Christ followed by a stern warning, that if they did not "DO the first WORKS', Christ Himself would remove their lampstand from its place. The seven lampstands that John saw were a symbol and representation of the seven churches to whom Jesus instructed him to write these words. To have their lampstand removed would be for the church of Ephesus to wither on the vine and die, Christ having removed His Spirit and presence from it. The only way for this church to escape judgment was to repent.

"But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality. Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth." (Rev. 2: 14-16)

The church of Pergamos, which comprised some who espoused false doctrines, such as that of the Nicolaitans and Balaam, were warned to repent, failing which Christ would fight against them with the sword of His mouth.

I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels." (Rev. 3: 1b-5)

This address to the church of Sardis holds probably the most sobering of warnings: ONLY those that overcome would have their names NOT erased from the Book of Life, logically ensuing that those who failed to do so WOULD have their names erased from the Book of Life. Does this passage even remotely suggest that grace would deliver these believers from eternal damnation IF the did not repent of their IMPERFECT WORKS? How is it that the clear, indisputable words of Christ that should evoke holy dread and terror have been replaced by the heinous tolerance to and justification of sin seen in much of the Church today that has lulled us into a dangerous deception, and certain damnation?

"I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing' - and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked - I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. (Rev. 3: 15-19)

Repeatedly, Christ issues a stern warning to REPENT! Then and ONLY then would He withhold the judgments He had threatened to unleash upon them. Yes, Christ, the One 'FULL OF Grace AND TRUTH' (John 1:14), the Head of the Church (Eph. 5:23), was the very One who commanded repentance. Not on one occasion, did He suggest that these judgments would be bypassed by virtue of their 'past, present and future sins being covered', as proponents of 'hypergrace' teach, or mitigated by virtue of their obedience in other areas.

Biblical grace teaches us to deny WORLDLINESS: "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." (Rom. 12:2)

James 4:4: Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
1John 2:15-17: Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world - the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life - is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Exhortations from Scripture:

"Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, 'Be holy, for I am holy.'" (1 Peter 1:13-16)

"Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul." (1 Peter 2:11)

"And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear." (1 Peter 1:17)