Bible Verses For Grace are for the moments when you need strength you do not have, patience with others, or confidence to approach God after failing. They invite you to the throne of grace and remind you that God’s grace is enough for today. Pray them slowly and let them shape both your prayers and your words.
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16 (KJV)
We are invited to come boldly to the throne of grace to find mercy and help in time of need.
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
2 Corinthians 12:9 (KJV)
When Paul begged for relief, God answered that His grace is enough and His strength shows in weakness.
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
2 Corinthians 8:9 (KJV)
Paul points to the grace of Jesus, who became poor for our sakes so that we might be made rich.
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
2 Peter 3:18 (KJV)
Peter urges believers to keep growing in grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
Numbers 6:25 (KJV)
A prayer that the Lord will make His face shine on us and be gracious to us.
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Colossians 4:6 (KJV)
Our speech should always be with grace, seasoned with salt, a good prayer before hard conversations.
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Ephesians 4:7 (KJV)
Each believer is given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
1 Peter 4:10 (KJV)
We are to use our gifts to serve others as good stewards of God’s manifold grace.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
2 Corinthians 9:8 (KJV)
God is able to make all grace abound toward us, so we have enough for every good work.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Hebrews 13:9 (KJV)
It is good for the heart to be established with grace rather than shifting teachings.
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 (KJV)
Paul prays that God, who gave everlasting consolation through grace, will comfort and establish our hearts.
Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 2:1 (KJV)
Paul tells Timothy to be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
James 4:6 (KJV)
God gives more grace, and He gives it to the humble, so humility opens the door.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Ephesians 4:29 (KJV)
Our words should build others up and minister grace to those who hear them.
But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
Psalms 86:15-16 (KJV)
David appeals to a God full of compassion and gracious, asking Him to turn and give strength.
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Hebrews 12:15 (KJV)
Believers watch over one another so no one falls short of God’s grace or grows bitter.
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
1 Corinthians 15:10 (KJV)
Paul says that by God’s grace he is what he is, and that grace worked through his labour.
Grace is not only a doctrine to understand; it is help to receive each day. When you feel weak or ashamed, pray Hebrews 4:16 and come to God honestly, trusting that you will find mercy rather than rejection. When a burden does not lift, 2 Corinthians 12:9 is a steady reminder that His strength shows most clearly in weakness.
These verses also shape how we treat people. Before a difficult conversation, read Colossians 4:6 and Ephesians 4:29 and ask God to season your words with grace. When someone has hurt you, Hebrews 12:15 warns against letting bitterness take root, and grace received becomes grace extended.
Many believers also use these verses as blessings. Numbers 6:25 and 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 can be prayed over friends and family, written in cards or spoken at the close of a small group. Growing in grace, as 2 Peter 3:18 says, is a lifelong process, so return to these verses often and let them remind you that God’s kindness toward you does not run out.
Ephesians 2:8-9 is worth praying precisely when you feel undeserving, since the verse is explicitly written for people who have nothing to offer in exchange.
2 Corinthians 12:9 works well prayed over a weakness that has not gone away despite prayer, asking specifically for grace to be sufficient in that exact weakness rather than for the weakness to disappear.
If you want to keep reading, Bible Verses About Comfort and Bible Verses About Encouragement sit close to this topic.
All Scripture here is quoted from the King James Version, which you can read in full at Blue Letter Bible.
Bible Verses For Being Thankful and Bible Verses For Strength and Hope pick up threads that run through these verses.
Bible Verses For Forgiveness and Healing and Bible Verses For Having Faith are good companions to this page.
For a related angle, see Bible Verses For Marriage and Love or Bible Verses For Loss.
Two nearby collections worth opening next are Bible Verses For Trusting God and Bible Verses About Trusting God.
To see how other translations render these lines, look them up on Bible Gateway.
To trace a verse through the rest of Scripture, the cross-references on Bible Hub are useful.
Grace meets people precisely where they have nothing left to offer. Return to whichever of these verses matches your current situation.
These verses were never meant to sit on a page as decoration \u2014 they’re meant to shape how you actually respond the next time someone doesn’t deserve a second chance by any normal measure.
You don’t need polished or formal language for it \u2014 an honest, plainly worded sentence is enough, something as simple as telling God directly for the grace to extend to them what’s already been freely given to you.
Second Samuel 9 tells the story of Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan and grandson of Saul. He had been lame in both feet since a fall at age five (2 Samuel 4:4). When David became king, many would have expected him to clear away anyone left from Saul’s house. Instead David asked, “Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?” (2 Samuel 9:1). Mephibosheth bowed and called himself a “dead dog,” yet David restored his family land and gave him a seat at the royal table.
Mephibosheth earned none of it. The kindness flowed from a promise David had made to Jonathan, and Christians have long read this chapter as a small picture of how God welcomes us for the sake of another, Jesus Christ. When you read Bible verses for grace alongside this story, notice its final line: he “did eat continually at the king’s table; and was lame on both his feet” (2 Samuel 9:13). His weakness remained, but his place at the table was secure.
If you feel too broken or too far gone to come near God, read Romans 5:8, which says Christ died for us “while we were yet sinners.” Then turn to Luke 15:20, where the father sees his son “a great way off” and runs to him. Among the Bible verses for grace, these two stand out because neither waits for the person to become impressive first. Together with 2 Samuel 9, they show a God who seeks people out and makes room for them.
Few books say more about grace in so few pages than Ephesians, and many Bible verses for grace come straight from it. Paul opens by praising “the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved” (Ephesians 1:6), and the next verse speaks of forgiveness “according to the riches of his grace.” Acceptance comes first, before any list of duties. That order matters for anyone who thinks they must clean themselves up before God will listen.
In chapter 2, Paul reminds readers that they were dead in sins, “But God, who is rich in mercy” made them alive with Christ: “by grace ye are saved” (Ephesians 2:4-5). Believers are then created “unto good works” (Ephesians 2:10), so grace ends not in idleness but in a changed life. In chapter 3 Paul calls himself “less than the least of all saints,” yet says grace was given him to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. The letter closes: “Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity” (Ephesians 6:24).
Reading Ephesians in one sitting shows how these Bible verses for grace fit into a single argument. For a fuller teaching overview of the theme, see what the whole Bible teaches about grace.
This plan uses short passages that are not quoted above, so it widens your set of Bible verses for grace rather than repeating it. Read one passage each morning, underline any phrase that mentions grace, and write one sentence about what it shows you about God.
By the end of the week you will have traced grace from Genesis to Hebrews. Working through the passages in order helps show that grace is not a New Testament afterthought but part of God’s character from the beginning.
Because grace is so central to the Christian faith, it is easy to bend it in directions Scripture does not go. Here are four misunderstandings worth avoiding as you read Bible verses for grace.
Paul anticipated this objection: “Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid” (Romans 6:1-2). Titus 2:11-12 adds that the grace of God teaches us to deny ungodliness and live soberly. Grace forgives sin, but it also trains us away from it.
Colossians 2:6 says, “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him.” We begin by grace and we continue by grace. Each ordinary Tuesday needs it as much as the day of conversion.
Philippians 2:12-13 tells believers to “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,” then explains why: “it is God which worketh in you.” Effort is not the opposite of grace; earning is. We work because God is already at work in us.
Lamentations 3:22-23 says the Lord’s compassions “fail not. They are new every morning.” There is no quota. Of all the Bible verses for grace, this one is especially helpful for anyone who keeps returning to God after the same failure.
A simple journal can turn Scripture about grace from ideas into daily habits. Any cheap notebook works, and ten quiet minutes with a cup of coffee or just before the lights go out is plenty.
Over a month, the journal becomes a record of God’s faithfulness. On discouraging days, flipping back through earlier pages is a reminder that grace has met you before and will meet you again. Some people pick a new verse each week from the Bible verses for grace collected here and write it on a card to carry with them.
If old guilt keeps surfacing as you write, it may help to spend time with verses on grace and forgiveness as well.
Here is a prayer shaped by the passages above: “Father, I come to You not because I have earned a place, but because You have invited me. Thank You that Your grace is sufficient for me today. Where I am weak, show Your strength. Where I am proud, humble me so that I can receive more grace. Season my words with grace, and help me show others the patience You have shown me. Keep me growing in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. In His name, Amen.”
Groups that want to go deeper with Bible verses for grace can use these questions over one or two meetings:
Give everyone room to answer without pressure, then close by praying Numbers 6:25 over one another.
Hebrews 4:16 tells us to “come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” The first readers were Jewish believers under pressure, and a throne would have sounded frightening to them. They knew what happened to people who wandered unannounced into a king’s court. Even Queen Esther, in her own story, wondered whether she would live through a visit she had not been summoned to.
So the writer turns the image around. This throne is marked by grace, and the One sitting on it has been tempted in every way we are, which the verse before it says plainly. You are not approaching a judge with a clipboard. You are approaching someone who understands the weight you carry.
Bold, in this verse, does not mean loud or demanding. The Greek word leans toward free speech, the ease of someone who is allowed to say what is actually on their mind. That is an invitation worth using on an ordinary Tuesday. Say the embarrassing thing. Admit the bill you cannot pay or the apology you have been dodging. You will not be thrown out, and the help you find may arrive in a form you did not request.
Colossians 4:6 says, “Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” Salt in the ancient kitchen preserved food and brought out flavor. Words seasoned that way keep a conversation from spoiling and still taste like something. They are not sugary and they are not bland.
Ephesians 4:29 goes further: “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.” Minister grace unto the hearers. Your sentences can be a delivery truck for something that is not yours. A coworker who has just been passed over, a child who spilled the milk for the third time, a spouse who forgot the date, each is a small moment where a few words either hand over grace or withhold it.
None of this requires pretending. Honesty and kindness can sit in the same sentence if you slow down enough to build it. Before replying to the next sharp message in your inbox, wait ten minutes and read it again. Ask what a hearer needs to be able to stand up straighter afterward. Then say that, plainly and briefly.
When Moses asked to see God’s glory on Sinai, the Lord passed by and announced his own character: “The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth” (Exodus 34:6). That was the self-introduction. Not power first, not fury, but mercy and grace and patience. The Israelites had just worshiped a golden calf, so the timing is striking.
Psalm 86:15-16 hands those words back to God in prayer, and David uses them as a ladder. “But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me.” He is quoting scripture to the One who wrote it, and he is sure the quotation will be heard.
You can pray this way too. When you do not know what to say, borrow a line God has already said about himself and lay it open before him. It is hard to feel like a stranger when you are repeating his own introduction. The habit also protects against a distorted picture of God, the one that sneaks in during bad weeks and says he is mostly irritated with you. The record says otherwise, and it says it early.
Hebrews 12:15 warns, “Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.” The picture is of a garden. A single weed root you ignore in spring has taken over the bed by August. The writer does not say bitterness comes from a lack of reasons, since people usually have real injuries behind it. He says it grows where grace is allowed to lapse.
I have sat with people who had every right to be angry, a betrayal in a marriage or a parent who never apologized, and I have seen the same pattern. The wound is real, and the hardening is a second wound they do not notice forming. Grace received is meant to soften us toward others. When we stop drinking from it, we sour.
The practical step is small and unglamorous. Name the hurt to God in specific words, then ask for the grace to move one inch toward forgiveness, not the whole mile. Talk with someone you trust, and if the pain is deep or tied to abuse or trauma, find a counselor who can help carry it. Pulling a root takes patience, and it is worth doing before the neighbors have to deal with the weeds as well.
If you want to keep going with this theme, try Bible Verses About Grace and Forgiveness, Bible Verses About God's Grace, Bible Verses For Grace and Forgiveness, Bible Verses About Grace and Bible Verses For God's Grace.
For deeper study, Bible Gateway, Bible Hub and Bible Study Tools are all free to use.
Grace is not only a doctrine to understand; it is help to receive each day. When you feel weak or ashamed, pray Hebrews 4:16 and come to God honestly, trusting that you will find mercy rather than rejection.
This page brings together 28 King James Version references about grace, drawn from 15 different books of the Bible.
Hebrews 4:16 is one of the verses about grace referenced in this collection, alongside 2 Corinthians 12:9.
Yes, the verses referenced on this page, including Hebrews 4:16, are quoted according to the King James Version (KJV), and are suitable for daily reading, memorization, or devotional use.
Beyond the references highlighted on this page, grace appears throughout Scripture in books such as Hebrews, 2 Corinthians, Colossians, Ephesians, Numbers; this collection focuses on some of the clearest examples.
