28 Bible Verses About Gratitude

28 verses · three translations

On thankfulness as a practice rather than a mood, including the passages that ask for it in circumstances that do not obviously warrant it.

  1. 1 Thessalonians 5:18

    In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

    Note the preposition: in everything, not for everything.

    Also on 1 Thessalonians 5:16 — Bible Verses About Joy, 1 Thessalonians 5:11 — Bible Verses About Friendship, 1 Thessalonians 5:14 — Bible Verses About Patience

  2. Psalm 100:4

    Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

    Describes how to arrive rather than how to feel.

    Also on Psalm 100:1-2 — Bible Verses About Joy

  3. Colossians 3:15

    And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

    Thankfulness attached to the end of a sentence about peace.

    Also on Bible Verses About Peace, Colossians 3:23 — Inspirational Bible Verses, Colossians 3:21 — Bible Verses About Children

  4. 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.

    Thanksgiving placed inside the instruction about anxiety.

    Also on Philippians 4:13 — Encouraging Bible Verses, Philippians 4:6-7 — Bible Verses About Peace, Philippians 4:4 — Bible Verses About Joy

  5. Psalm 107:1

    O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

    The refrain that opens and closes the psalm.

    Also on Psalm 107:20 — Bible Verses About Healing

  6. Ephesians 5:20

    Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

    Always and for all things, which is the difficult part.

    Also on Ephesians 5:25 — Bible Verses About Love, Ephesians 5:33 — Bible Verses About Family, Ephesians 5:15-16 — Bible Verses About Wisdom

  7. Psalm 136:1

    O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

    The refrain repeats in every one of its verses.

    Also on Bible Verses About Love

  8. 1 Chronicles 16:34

    O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

    From a song used at the moving of the ark.

    Also on 1 Chronicles 16:11 — Bible Verses About Strength

  9. Colossians 2:7

    Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

    Abounding is the word, and it implies excess.

  10. Psalm 9:1

    [To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.] I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

    Whole heart, and then a list.

    Also on Psalm 9:10 — Bible Verses About Trusting God

  11. 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.

    Traces every good thing back to one source.

    Also on James 1:2-3 — Inspirational Bible Verses, James 1:2 — Bible Verses About Joy, James 1:19-20 — Bible Verses About Anger

  12. 2 Corinthians 9:15

    Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

    A single-sentence exclamation ending a chapter about giving.

  13. Psalm 118:1

    O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.

    Opens the psalm that Jesus quoted last.

    Also on Psalm 118:24 — Encouraging Bible Verses, Psalm 118:8 — Bible Verses About Trusting God, Psalm 118:24 — Bible Verses About Joy

  14. Colossians 4:2

    Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

    Watchfulness and thanksgiving joined to prayer.

  15. Psalm 95:2

    Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. come...: Heb. prevent his face

    Coming before with thanksgiving, as an approach.

  16. 1 Timothy 4:4

    For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

    A verse used over meals for centuries.

    Also on 1 Timothy 4:12 — Inspirational Bible Verses, 1 Timothy 4:10 — Bible Verses About Hope

  17. Psalm 103:2

    Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

    The instruction is against forgetting.

    Also on Psalm 103:2-3 — Bible Verses About Healing, Psalm 103:17 — Bible Verses About Children, Psalm 103:8 — Bible Verses About Anger

  18. 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: let...: or, let us hold fast

    Gratitude framed as the reasonable response.

    Also on Hebrews 12:1 — Inspirational Bible Verses, Hebrews 12:14 — Bible Verses About Peace, Hebrews 12:2 — Bible Verses About Faith

  19. Psalm 30:12

    To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever. my glory: that is, my tongue, or, my soul

    The last line of a psalm about recovery.

    Also on Psalm 30:2 — Bible Verses About Healing, Psalm 30:5 — Comforting Bible Verses, Psalm 30:5 — Bible Verses About Joy

  20. Luke 17:15

    And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,

    One of ten came back; the narrative makes the point.

    Also on Luke 17:5 — Bible Verses About Faith, Luke 17:3-4 — Bible Verses About Forgiveness

  21. Psalm 106:1

    Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Praise...: Heb. Hallelujah

    Another psalm opening on the same refrain.

  22. Daniel 6:10

    Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

    Thanks given three times a day, with the law against it already signed.

  23. Psalm 69:30

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

    Magnifying with thanksgiving, in the middle of a complaint.

  24. 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.

    Thanksgiving described as the point of the whole thing.

    Also on 2 Corinthians 4:17 — Comforting Bible Verses

  25. Psalm 92:1

    [A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.] It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

    A song written for the sabbath.

  26. 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.

    Said from inside the fish.

  27. 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.

    Thanksgiving in a list of seven.

  28. Psalm 28:7

    The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

    Help remembered, and then the song.

    Also on Bible Verses About Strength