Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

LSB #806 "Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart"

Biblical citations in the hymnal:  2 Corinthians 9:15; 12:9-10; 2 Corinthians 8:9

2 Corinthians 9:15:  "Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!"

2 Corinthians 12:9-10:  "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.  10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities.  For when I am weak, then I am strong."

2 Corinthians 8:9:  "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich."

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2 Corinthians 9:15 appears in the repeated "Give thanks" throughout the hymn.  2 Corinthians 12:9-10 and 8:9 are the basis for the section "And now let the weak say 'I am strong,' / Let the poor say 'I am rich,' / Because of what the Lord has done for us."