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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

Genesis 1:29 KJV

What the Bible Says About Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving as a national holiday is a later tradition, and the Bible does not mention it by name. What Scripture does contain is a deep and constant teaching on gratitude. Israel's calendar included harvest festivals such as the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles, when families gathered to rejoice over the crops and remember what God had done. Leviticus and Deuteronomy describe thank offerings, firstfruits baskets and shared meals that included servants, foreigners and the poor.

The Psalms turn that practice into song. Psalm 100 carries a Hebrew heading that is usually translated as a psalm for giving thanks, and Psalm 107 asks the rescued to say so aloud. Psalm 65 praises God for crowning the year with goodness as the fields overflow. In these texts gratitude is never only a feeling; it is spoken, sung and shared at a table.

Where Gratitude Appears

In the Gospels, Jesus gives thanks before feeding crowds and before the Last Supper, and one of ten healed lepers comes back to thank him. Paul's letters open again and again with thanks for the people he writes to, and from prison he writes that he has learned contentment whether he has plenty or little. His advice to give thanks in all circumstances does not mean pretending everything is good. It means keeping an eye out for what God is still giving.

The Bible also warns about the opposite. Moses cautions prosperous Israel not to say that their own power produced their wealth, and Jesus tells of a farmer with a full barn who forgot that his life was not his own. Gratitude and generosity are shown as two halves of the same habit.

Ways to Use These Verses

Read a verse aloud before the meal and let each person say one thing they are thankful for.
Write a verse on place cards or a chalkboard to set the tone at a holiday table.
Choose a harvest psalm for a church service, a school assembly or a community dinner.
Send a verse in a thank-you card to a neighbor, teacher or friend who has helped you this year.
Keep a gratitude journal and copy one verse beside each entry, adding a sentence about its setting.

When you draw a verse, glance at the note first. It tells you who is speaking and why, which helps you use a line responsibly rather than lifting it out of context. Many of the best thanksgiving passages were written by people in hard circumstances, and that is part of what gives them weight.

For a wider mix of passages, try the Bible verse randomizer or the random encouraging Bible verse page, and browse the Bible books to read the whole chapter around any verse you draw.

Verses in This Collection

Genesis 1:29 – And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
On the sixth day God gives humans every seed-bearing plant and fruit tree for food, the Bible's first picture of provision.
Genesis 8:20 – And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Leaving the ark, Noah builds an altar and offers sacrifices to God, the first recorded act of worship after the flood.
Genesis 41:47-49 – And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
During seven years of plenty in Egypt, Joseph stores up grain in such quantity that record-keeping stops, preparing for later famine.
Genesis 45:7 – And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Joseph tells his brothers that God sent him ahead to Egypt to preserve a remnant, so that many lives would be saved.
Exodus 16:14-15 – And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it , they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was . And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
In the wilderness, Israel finds a small round substance on the ground each morning and asks what it is; Moses says God provided it.
Exodus 23:16 – And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Israel's calendar includes a feast of harvest for the firstfruits of labor and a feast of ingathering at the year's end.
Exodus 34:22 – And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
Alongside the Sabbath, Israel is told to keep the feast of weeks with wheat firstfruits and the feast of ingathering.
Leviticus 7:12 – If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.
Instructions for a thank offering describe unleavened loaves and cakes offered to express gratitude for something God had done.
Leviticus 23:39-41 – Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
The Feast of Tabernacles follows the gathering of crops and calls for seven days of rejoicing before the Lord.
Leviticus 26:3-5 – If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
God links obedience to rain in season, abundant harvests and safe living, a covenant promise made to Israel specifically.
Deuteronomy 8:7-10 – For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
Moses describes the good land Israel will enter, with water, grain, vines and olives, and says to bless God after eating.
Deuteronomy 8:17-18 – And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Moses warns prosperous Israelites not to credit their own strength for wealth, since God gives the ability to produce it.
Deuteronomy 16:13-15 – Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine: And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates. Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
Moses commands Israel to keep the Feast of Tabernacles after the harvest, rejoicing together with family, servants and foreigners.
Deuteronomy 26:10-11 – And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD , hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God: And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.
The worshipper presents firstfruits and then rejoices in all the good that God has given to the household and the foreigner.
Ruth 2:15-16 – And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them , that she may glean them , and rebuke her not.
Boaz tells his workers to leave extra grain for Ruth to gather, a practical act of generosity during the barley harvest.
1 Chronicles 16:8 – Give thanks unto the LORD , call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.
David's song of thanks urges the people to give thanks to the Lord and make his deeds known among the nations.
1 Chronicles 16:34 – O give thanks unto the LORD ; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
The same psalm of thanks, sung when the ark came to Jerusalem, celebrates the Lord's goodness and love that endures.
1 Chronicles 29:12-14 – Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.
David praises God for the offerings gathered for the temple, noting that everything given originally came from God.
2 Chronicles 5:13 – It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD ; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD , saying , For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD ;
At the dedication of Solomon's temple, trumpeters and singers unite in thanking the Lord, and a cloud fills the building.
Nehemiah 12:27 – And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
When Jerusalem's wall is dedicated, Levites are gathered to celebrate with thanksgiving, singing, cymbals and stringed instruments.
Psalm 9:1 – I will praise thee , O LORD , with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
David begins by thanking the Lord with all his heart and promises to tell of all God's wonderful deeds.
Psalm 34:1 – I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
David resolves to bless the Lord at all times, a psalm traditionally linked to his escape from the Philistine king.
Psalm 50:14 – Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
God tells his people through Asaph that thanksgiving, not mere ritual, is the sacrifice he wants, along with kept vows.
Psalm 65:9-11 – Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
A harvest psalm praises God for watering the land, enriching it and crowning the year so the fields overflow.
Psalm 67:5-7 – Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
A short prayer for blessing asks that all peoples praise God, and notes that the earth has yielded its harvest.
Psalm 95:1-3 – O come, let us sing unto the LORD : let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
This call to worship invites people to come before the Lord with thanksgiving and music, since he is a great king.
Psalm 100:1-4 – Make a joyful noise unto the LORD , all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
A psalm for giving thanks calls everyone to enter God's gates with gratitude, recognizing that he made us and we are his.
Psalm 104:14-15 – He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man’s heart.
A creation psalm celebrates God for making grass for cattle, plants for people, and wine, oil and bread to sustain life.
Psalm 105:1 – O give thanks unto the LORD ; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
This history psalm begins by telling worshippers to thank the Lord, call on his name and make his deeds known.
Psalm 107:1 – O give thanks unto the LORD , for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
The opening of a psalm gathering rescued travelers, prisoners and sailors urges the redeemed to say so aloud.
Psalm 107:8-9 – Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
The refrain says people should thank the Lord for his goodness, because he satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry.
Psalm 116:12-14 – What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD . I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.
Delivered from death, the psalmist asks how he can repay God and decides to lift the cup of salvation and keep his vows.
Psalm 116:17 – I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD .
The psalmist promises to bring a thank offering and to call on the Lord's name.
Psalm 118:1 – O give thanks unto the LORD ; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.
A festival psalm opens by telling Israel to give thanks to the Lord for his goodness and his lasting love.
Psalm 118:28-29 – Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee. O give thanks unto the LORD ; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
The pilgrim in this psalm declares thanks to God, then repeats the opening call to give thanks for his enduring love.
Psalm 126:3 – The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
Returning exiles remember the great things God did for them and describe themselves as filled with joy.
Psalm 136:1-3 – O give thanks unto the LORD ; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever. O give thanks to the Lord of lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
A liturgical psalm has the congregation respond to each line with a refrain about God's enduring love, starting with thanks.
Psalm 136:25 – Who giveth food to all flesh: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Part of a call-and-response psalm lists the God who gives food to every creature, linking daily bread to his love.
Psalm 138:1-2 – I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee. I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
David gives thanks with his whole heart and bows toward God's temple, praising his love and faithfulness.
Psalm 145:15-16 – The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
The psalm describes all creatures looking to God for food at the proper time, and him opening his hand to satisfy them.
Psalm 147:7 – Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
The psalmist calls for singing to the Lord with thanksgiving and making music on the harp.
Psalm 147:14 – He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
The writer praises God for making Jerusalem's borders peaceful and filling the city with the finest wheat.
Proverbs 3:9-10 – Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
A father advises honoring God with the firstfruits of one's income, with the promise that barns will be filled.
Proverbs 11:25 – The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
The wise writer observes that a generous person will prosper, and whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
Proverbs 15:17 – Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
A simple meal of vegetables with love is called better than a rich dinner served amid hatred.
Proverbs 30:8-9 – Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee , and say, Who is the LORD ? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain .
Agur prays for neither poverty nor riches but only daily bread, so he neither forgets God nor steals.
Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 – I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
The Teacher concludes that it is good for people to be happy and to find satisfaction in eating and drinking as God's gift.
Ecclesiastes 5:19 – Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
Qoheleth says that when God gives wealth and the ability to enjoy it, accepting that lot is a gift from him.
Ecclesiastes 9:7 – Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
The Teacher invites readers to eat their bread with joy and drink wine with a glad heart, since God approves of their works.
Isaiah 12:4 – And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD , call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
In a song of the redeemed, the people are told to give thanks to the Lord and make known among the nations what he has done.
Isaiah 25:6 – And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
Isaiah pictures a banquet on God's mountain for all peoples, with rich food and fine aged wine.
Isaiah 55:1-2 – Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
God invites the thirsty and those without money to come and eat, offering what truly satisfies without cost.
Isaiah 55:10-11 – For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
God compares his word to rain and snow that water the earth and produce seed for the sower and bread for the eater.
Jeremiah 30:19 – And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
God promises that the sound of thanksgiving and laughter will come from restored Jerusalem and its people.
Jeremiah 33:11 – The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD . For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD .
The prophet foresees the return of gladness to a ruined land, with voices giving thanks that the Lord is good.
Joel 2:23-24 – Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month . And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
After a locust plague, Joel tells Zion to rejoice because rain returns and the threshing floors will fill with grain.
Joel 2:26 – And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.
God promises that his people will have plenty to eat and will praise the name of the Lord who has provided.
Amos 9:13 – Behold, the days come, saith the LORD , that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Amos ends his book with a restoration promise so rich that harvests overlap and the mountains drip with sweet wine.
Jonah 2:9 – But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD .
From inside the fish, Jonah promises to sacrifice with a voice of thanksgiving and to keep what he has vowed.
Habakkuk 3:17-18 – Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD , I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Even if figs, grapes, olives and herds fail, Habakkuk says he will rejoice in the Lord, a gratitude that does not require abundance.
Matthew 6:11 – Give us this day our daily bread.
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus teaches his followers to ask God for the bread they need for today.
Matthew 6:26 – Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Jesus points to birds that neither sow nor reap yet are fed by God, to reassure his listeners of their value.
Matthew 14:19 – And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Before feeding a crowd of five thousand with five loaves and two fish, Jesus looks up to heaven, blesses the bread and breaks it.
Matthew 15:36 – And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them , and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Jesus takes seven loaves and a few fish, gives thanks, and breaks them to feed a crowd that had been with him for days.
Matthew 26:26-27 – And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it , and brake it , and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
At the Last Supper, Jesus takes bread and the cup and gives thanks, establishing a meal of remembrance for his followers.
Luke 6:38 – Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Jesus teaches that generous giving is met by generous return, with a good measure pressed down and running over.
Luke 12:18-21 – And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Jesus tells of a farmer with a bumper harvest who plans only for himself and loses his life that very night.
Luke 17:15-18 – And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.
Of ten lepers healed by Jesus, only a Samaritan returns to thank him, and Jesus notes the absence of the other nine.
John 6:11 – And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
Jesus takes five loaves, gives thanks and distributes them to the crowd, who eat as much as they want.
John 4:35-36 – Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
Jesus tells his disciples to look at the fields ripe for harvest, using agriculture to describe the people ready to hear.
John 11:41 – Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
At Lazarus's tomb, Jesus thanks the Father for hearing him before the miracle occurs, showing confident gratitude.
Acts 2:46-47 – And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Early believers share meals in their homes with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying favor with people.
Acts 14:17 – Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Paul tells a crowd in Lystra that God has shown kindness by giving rain and crops, filling hearts with food and gladness.
Acts 27:35 – And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it , he began to eat.
During a storm at sea, Paul takes bread, gives thanks in front of everyone and begins to eat, encouraging the ship's crew.
Romans 1:21 – Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Paul warns that people who knew God but did not honor him or give thanks fell into confused thinking.
Romans 14:6 – He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it . He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
Paul says that those who eat, or abstain, do so for the Lord and give thanks to God, whatever their differences.
1 Corinthians 10:30-31 – For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Paul says that if he eats with thankfulness he should not be denounced, and adds that all should be done for God's glory.
1 Corinthians 15:57 – But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul ends his chapter on resurrection by thanking God for giving the victory through Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:15 – For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
Paul says his hardships serve the church, so that grace spreads and thanksgiving overflows to God's glory.
2 Corinthians 9:10-12 – Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God. For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;
Paul assures the Corinthians that God supplies seed and bread, so their giving will cause many to give thanks to God.
2 Corinthians 9:15 – Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
Closing his appeal for the Jerusalem collection, Paul thanks God for his gift too great to describe.
Ephesians 1:15-16 – Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
Paul says he has not stopped giving thanks for the Ephesians, remembering them in his prayers.
Ephesians 5:19-20 – Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Paul tells believers to sing and make music in their hearts and always thank God for everything in Jesus' name.
Philippians 1:3 – I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
Paul opens his letter to a church that supported him by saying he thanks God every time he remembers them.
Philippians 4:6 – Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Paul says not to be anxious, but to bring requests to God with thanksgiving in every situation.
Philippians 4:11-12 – Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Paul explains from prison that he has learned contentment in every circumstance, whether well fed or hungry.
Philippians 4:19 – But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Paul assures the generous Philippians that God will meet all their needs from his glorious riches in Christ.
Colossians 2:6-7 – As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Paul tells believers to keep living in Christ, rooted and built up in faith and overflowing with thankfulness.
Colossians 3:15-17 – And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Paul encourages the Colossians to let Christ's peace rule and to be thankful in all they say and do.
Colossians 4:2 – Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;
Paul asks the church to devote themselves to prayer, staying watchful and thankful.
1 Thessalonians 1:2-3 – We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers; Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
Paul writes that he always thanks God for the Thessalonians, remembering their work of faith and labor of love.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 – Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
In brief closing instructions, Paul urges the church to rejoice, pray and give thanks in all circumstances.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 – But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Paul says he must always thank God for the believers in Thessalonica, whom God chose from the beginning.
1 Timothy 4:4-5 – For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Paul says everything God created is good and nothing should be rejected if received with thanksgiving.
1 Timothy 6:17 – Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Paul tells wealthy believers not to trust in riches but in God, who richly provides everything for enjoyment.
Hebrews 12:28 – Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
The writer says believers are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, so they should be thankful and worship with reverence.
Hebrews 13:15 – By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
The writer says believers should continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess his name.
James 1:17 – Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
James says every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights, who does not change.
Revelation 7:12 – Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
In John's vision a great multitude and angels worship God with blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power and strength.
Revelation 11:17 – Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
Elders around the throne give thanks to the Lord God Almighty for taking his great power and beginning to reign.

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