Bible verses about gratitude
Scripture treats ingratitude as the first thing that went wrong rather than as a small discourtesy, and it asks for thanks at moments nobody would think to give any. These passages are set out with a sentence on each.
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you. — 1 Thessalonians 5:18 · WEB
Three of the shortest commands in Scripture, and each is made unreasonable by a single word.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name. — Psalm 100:4 · WEB
Five verses of pure invitation, and the one thing the worshipers are told to know is that they did not make themselves.
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. — Psalm 107:1 · WEB
Four kinds of people in trouble, and each group gets the same two sentences.
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. — Psalm 136:1 · WEB
Twenty-six verses, and the congregation says the same eight words after every one of them.
One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. — Luke 17:15 · WEB
Ten lepers are cleansed on the road and one comes back — the wrong one, by every reckoning of the day.
Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. — Romans 1:21 · WEB
The primal sin is described as a failed thanksgiving, and the descent runs from worship withheld to images of creeping things.
Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits, — Psalm 103:2 · WEB
A man instructs his own soul to remember, and the list he produces is the fullest account of God's character in the collection.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — Philippians 4:6 · WEB
The alternative to worry is not calm but a transaction — and what is promised back is a garrison.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful. — Colossians 3:15 · WEB
Peace is given an office, the word is given a residence, and everything a person does is put under one name.
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father; — Ephesians 5:20 · WEB
One command governs four participles, and the last of them introduces everything the letter says about households.
Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift! — 2 Corinthians 9:15 · WEB
The collection is credited with three results, and only the first of them is the relief of poverty.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. — 1 Corinthians 15:57 · WEB
The living and the dead are changed at one moment, and the chapter ends by taunting death with the prophets' own words.
Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, — Hebrews 12:28 · WEB
The last warning turns on a shaking that sorts the removable from the permanent, and the readers are told which side of the sorting they hold.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving. — 1 Timothy 4:4 · WEB
The answer to the prohibitions is drawn from creation, and the qualification attached to it is not a loophole but the whole mechanism.
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works. — Psalm 9:1 · WEB
Thanksgiving for judgment already executed, and a reminder that the nations are only men.
Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God. — Ecclesiastes 5:19 · WEB