Today we will be dealing with 20 bible verses for Grace and mercy.
What do you understand by Grace and mercy?
Mercy is the compassion showed towards someone when it is within ones power to punish them.
Grace in Christian theology is the spontaneous, unmerited gift of the divine favour in the salvation of sinners, and the divine influence operating in individuals for their regeneration and sanctification. Grace is the unmerited favor of God.
God showed His favor to mankind both the sinners and the believers even to those we think deserve the worst. God loves us so much that we were saved at Chirst expense. Which is why Grace has been termed God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense.Do we remember how Christ died for us , this tells us that God has always loved us before we loved Him. How unconditional His love towards us is.
Every successful thing we do in this life couldn’t have been achieved without God’s grace. We can actually do nothing without Christ helping us I’m sure we know that God’s grace and mercy is so important that we wouldn’t be able to breath and live our normal life without His grace and mercy.
In order not to continue to enjoy Gods grace and mercy wewe should;
- Pray Always
- Forsake not the gathering of the brethren
- Seek for wisdom and understanding
- Stay away from doing carnal things
- Listen to the word of God which will help us stay connected to Him.
- Repent of any sin and from secret unholy dealings that might be a hindrance.
- Live in accordance to His word and Doctrines and obey His word.
- Love our neighbors as ourselves as He as commanded us to.
Here are some bible verses that has been collected to help us get familiar with God’s grace and mercy.
1. 2 Corinthians 12:9
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2. Titus 2:11-14
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 Savior 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.
3. Romans 3:20-24
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
4. Ephesians 2:1-10
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
5. Acts 20:32
And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
6. 1 Peter 4:10
As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace.
7. Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
8. Titus 2:11-12
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.
9. Romans 5:17
For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
10. Ephesians 1:7
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace.
11. 1 Peter 3:7
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
12. Romans 5:1-10
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
13. Revelation 22:21
The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.
14. Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
15. Titus 3:7
So that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
16. Romans 4:16
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.
17. Acts 6:8
And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people.
18. Proverbs 4:9
She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.
19. Romans 5:15
But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.
20. Romans 3:23-24
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
