100 Bible Verses about Giving Thanks

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 513 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 359 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 100:1-5 ESV / 286 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.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 279 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.

Psalm 107:1 ESV / 234 helpful votes

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

James 1:17 ESV / 195 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.

Ephesians 5:20 ESV / 182 helpful votes

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

Psalm 150:6 ESV / 170 helpful votes

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!

Luke 6:38 ESV / 161 helpful votes

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Psalm 100:4 ESV / 152 helpful votes

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

1 Chronicles 16:34 ESV / 152 helpful votes

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

1 Chronicles 29:10-20 ESV / 135 helpful votes

Therefore David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: “Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name. “But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. ...

Hebrews 13:15 ESV / 134 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.

1 Chronicles 29:13 ESV / 133 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 131 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 128 helpful votes

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Colossians 4:2 ESV / 126 helpful votes

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

Psalm 69:30 ESV / 126 helpful votes

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

Psalm 92:1 ESV / 122 helpful votes

A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath. It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High;

Psalm 106:1 ESV / 113 helpful votes

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

Psalm 28:7 ESV / 113 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 1:4 ESV / 110 helpful votes

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

Psalm 95:2 ESV / 95 helpful votes

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

1 Chronicles 16:8 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 9:11 ESV / 82 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 4:15 ESV / 82 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.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ESV / 80 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 9:15 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

Psalm 7:17 ESV / 78 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.

Revelation 11:17 ESV / 75 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.

Jonah 2:9 ESV / 73 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!”

2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 71 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.

1 Timothy 4:4-5 ESV / 70 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.

Daniel 6:10 ESV / 70 helpful votes

When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in his upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously.

Colossians 2:6-7 ESV / 68 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.

Psalm 136:1-26 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast love endures forever; to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever; ...

1 Corinthians 15:57 ESV / 66 helpful votes

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

Psalm 9:1-2 ESV / 66 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.

Psalm 50:14 ESV / 62 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 61 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.

Psalm 136:1 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.

1 Thessalonians 1:2 ESV / 60 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 12:28-29 ESV / 57 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.

Malachi 3:10 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Hebrews 12:28 ESV / 55 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 147:7 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving; make melody to our God on the lyre!

Psalm 9:1 ESV / 52 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.

Psalm 34:1 ESV / 51 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.

2 Chronicles 5:13 ESV / 51 helpful votes

And it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever,” the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,

Psalm 50:23 ESV / 50 helpful votes

The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!”

2 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 49 helpful votes

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

Psalm 107:8-9 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man! For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.

Psalm 30:4 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.

Revelation 7:12 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”

Ephesians 1:16 ESV / 47 helpful votes

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

Psalm 118:1 ESV / 46 helpful votes

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

Psalm 116:17 ESV / 46 helpful votes

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

Psalm 30:12 ESV / 46 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 1:12 ESV / 45 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 30:19 ESV / 45 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.

Ruth 2:12 ESV / 45 helpful votes

The Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”

1 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 44 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:28 ESV / 44 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Psalm 136:1-3 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his steadfast love endures forever;

John 3:16 ESV / 43 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.

Daniel 2:23 ESV / 43 helpful votes

To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter.”

Psalm 95:1-6 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! 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. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. ...

Jeremiah 33:11 ESV / 41 helpful votes

The voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord: “‘Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!’ For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.

Psalm 105:1 ESV / 41 helpful votes

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

Psalm 35:18 ESV / 40 helpful votes

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

Numbers 6:24-26 ESV / 40 helpful votes

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 38 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Romans 1:21 ESV / 38 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 119:62 ESV / 38 helpful votes

At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules.

Psalm 118:21 ESV / 38 helpful votes

I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.

Ezra 3:11 ESV / 38 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.

1 Timothy 4:4 ESV / 37 helpful votes

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

Ephesians 5:3-4 ESV / 37 helpful votes

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

Psalm 118:29 ESV / 37 helpful votes

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

Psalm 95:2-3 ESV / 37 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.

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 35 helpful votes

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Psalm 75:1 ESV / 35 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.

2 Samuel 2:6 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Now may the Lord show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.

Ephesians 5:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

Isaiah 12:4 ESV / 31 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.

Romans 1:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes

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

Colossians 1:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

2 Corinthians 9:11-12 ESV / 28 helpful votes

You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.

Psalm 97:12 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name!

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Philippians 1:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

Philippians 1:3-5 ESV / 27 helpful votes

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now.

Psalm 145:1-21 ESV / 26 helpful votes

A Song of Praise. Of David. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. ...

Romans 12:2 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

1 Chronicles 29:10-13 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Therefore David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly. And David said: “Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever. Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

1 Chronicles 29:12-13 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

2 Corinthians 9:10 ESV / 22 helpful votes

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

2 Corinthians 4:15-16 ESV / 22 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. So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

1 Chronicles 29:12-14 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name. “But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

John 15:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

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