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100 Bible Verses about Being Thankful

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 1,917 helpful votes

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Psalm 107:1 ESV / 1,180 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Ephesians 5:20 ESV / 1,086 helpful votes

Giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Colossians 3:15-17 ESV / 940 helpful votes

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

James 1:17 ESV / 800 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 765 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

2 Corinthians 9:15 ESV / 577 helpful votes

Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

Psalm 106:1 ESV / 551 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Colossians 4:2 ESV / 456 helpful votes

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 453 helpful votes

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Psalm 100:4 ESV / 440 helpful votes

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!

Psalm 105:1 ESV / 428 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 426 helpful votes

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Psalm 20:4 ESV / 359 helpful votes

May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans!

Psalm 118:1-18 ESV / 341 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. ...

Psalm 30:12 ESV / 335 helpful votes

That my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Romans 1:21 ESV / 304 helpful votes

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Psalm 95:2 ESV / 232 helpful votes

Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

1 Chronicles 16:34 ESV / 225 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

Psalm 100:1-5 ESV / 205 helpful votes

A Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

Philemon 1:4 ESV / 201 helpful votes

I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 199 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Isaiah 12:4-5 ESV / 194 helpful votes

And you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted. “Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth.

Psalm 7:17 ESV / 186 helpful votes

I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 185 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 176 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 168 helpful votes

Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1 Chronicles 29:13 ESV / 162 helpful votes

And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

Psalm 9:1-2 ESV / 161 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

John 14:1 ESV / 151 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

Psalm 69:30 ESV / 148 helpful votes

I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Psalm 28:7 ESV / 137 helpful votes

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

1 Corinthians 15:57 ESV / 131 helpful votes

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Chronicles 16:8 ESV / 131 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!

Hebrews 12:28 ESV / 119 helpful votes

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,

Psalm 46:1-11 ESV / 119 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. ...

Colossians 2:7 ESV / 113 helpful votes

Rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Psalm 118:28 ESV / 113 helpful votes

You are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you.

1 Timothy 4:4-5 ESV / 107 helpful votes

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 104 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 9:1 ESV / 103 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

2 Corinthians 4:15 ESV / 101 helpful votes

For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

2 Corinthians 9:11 ESV / 97 helpful votes

You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 1:4 ESV / 96 helpful votes

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,

Romans 10:10 ESV / 92 helpful votes

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Philippians 1:3 ESV / 91 helpful votes

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

Psalm 35:18 ESV / 87 helpful votes

I will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 86 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 86 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Revelation 11:17 ESV / 83 helpful votes

Saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 78 helpful votes

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Acts 2:38 ESV / 77 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 76 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

1 Thessalonians 1:2 ESV / 71 helpful votes

We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers,

Romans 10:9 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 1:8 ESV / 70 helpful votes

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Hebrews 12:28-29 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

John 10:10 ESV / 67 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Romans 10:13 ESV / 65 helpful votes

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Colossians 2:6-7 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 64 helpful votes

The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Psalm 116:12 ESV / 64 helpful votes

What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits to me?

Psalm 34:1 ESV / 64 helpful votes

Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 63 helpful votes

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...

Psalm 50:14 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High,

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 60 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 60 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

1 John 1:9 ESV / 59 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Timothy 1:12 ESV / 59 helpful votes

I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service,

1 Thessalonians 3:9 ESV / 59 helpful votes

For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God,

Psalm 40:1-17 ESV / 59 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. ...

Ecclesiastes 7:14 ESV / 58 helpful votes

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Psalm 107:8 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!

Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 57 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. ...

Jonah 2:9 ESV / 56 helpful votes

But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!”

Colossians 1:12 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

Ephesians 1:16 ESV / 53 helpful votes

I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,

James 1:1-27 ESV / 52 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. ...

2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 52 helpful votes

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

John 1:12 ESV / 52 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

1 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 50 helpful votes

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,

Psalm 116:17 ESV / 50 helpful votes

I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord.

Psalm 75:1 ESV / 50 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-28 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. ...

Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 43 helpful votes

I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. ...

Psalm 95:2-3 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Hebrews 13:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 41 helpful votes

In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

James 4:6-12 ESV / 40 helpful votes

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. ...

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 40 helpful votes

But test everything; hold fast what is good.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

John 3:3 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Ezra 3:11 ESV / 39 helpful votes

And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.” And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.

Romans 10:4 ESV / 36 helpful votes

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Malachi 3:11 ESV / 36 helpful votes

I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 30:19 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, and the voices of those who celebrate. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be small.

Isaiah 12:4 ESV / 36 helpful votes

And you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 34 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

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