SinaiBible verses about Gratitude
Giving thanks — as a command, a habit, a defence against grumbling, and a response to grace.
100 verses in 10 themes · World English Bible
Give Thanks to the Lord
The direct commands to be thankful, and the reason given.
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands! Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.
Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.
to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Oh give thanks to Yahweh. Call on his name. Make what he has done known among the peoples.
Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
Thankful in All Circumstances
Gratitude that does not wait for things to improve first.
Always rejoice. Pray without ceasing.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
For though the fig tree doesn’t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.
My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all day long.
But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh.”
Praise and Worship
Thanks turned outward and upward.
Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth. Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day!
Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits,
who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies, who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!
Through him, then, let’s offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”
God's Blessings and Provision
Noticing where the ordinary good things come from.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation.
You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.
The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
Give us today our daily bread.
You shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good land which he has given you.
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
Remembering What God Has Done
Gratitude as an act of memory — and forgetting as the real danger.
Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today; lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them; and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
I will remember Yah’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old. I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.
I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.
We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.
What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?
Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.’ ”
I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
Contentment and Gratitude
Wanting what you have instead of having what you want.
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
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.
I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live. Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure. The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.
Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.
He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
Gratitude in Prayer
Thanks as a fixed part of how you pray, and how Paul prayed for people.
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,
We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
I thank my God whenever I remember you, always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,
We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.
But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me.
Gratitude Toward Others
Saying thank you to people, and the nine who didn't.
One of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice. He fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.
Jesus answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”
Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.
I rejoice at the coming of Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus; for that which was lacking on your part, they supplied. For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.
However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers. They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,
But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,
But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
you being enriched in everything to all generosity, which produces thanksgiving to God through us. For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,
A Thankful Heart
Gratitude as a posture — and grumbling as its opposite.
As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
Do all things without complaining and arguing,
Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.
The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
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.
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High, to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,
Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
Thanks for Salvation
The gift too large to describe.
Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love,
But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
I thank God through Jesus Christ, our Lord! So then with the mind, I myself serve God’s law, but with the flesh, sin’s law.
He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.
In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
saying, “Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”