Thankfulness in the Bible is less a feeling than a habit. The Psalms open worship with thanks, Paul tells readers to give thanks “in everything”, and the same instruction appears in letters written from prison. It is a practice for good days and bad ones.
Here are verses for giving thanks, for thankfulness in hard times, and for grace and harvest occasions. Each is quoted from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation, so you can use it on cards, place settings or a Thanksgiving post.
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The call to thankfulness, mostly from the Psalms.
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name. For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; for his loving kindness endures forever.
I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.
Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits…
Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Gratitude that doesn’t wait for things to go well.
Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. 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. 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.
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.
Giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father…
Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe…
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!
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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.
This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!
Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
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.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
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Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!
You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.
Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs!
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.
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1 Thessalonians 5:18 says “in everything give thanks”, and Colossians 3:17 asks for thanks in everything you do. Psalm 107:1 gives the reason the Psalms repeat most: “for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.”
Psalm 100:4 (“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving”) and 1 Chronicles 16:34 are traditional Thanksgiving and harvest readings.
Psalm 145:15-16 thanks God for giving food “in due season”, and James 1:17 thanks him for every good gift. Both are short enough to read at the table.
Every verse is quoted from the World English Bible, a modern English translation its editors have placed in the public domain, as published by Project Gutenberg (ebook #8294). Only the typography is changed: curly quotation marks, psalm titles and musical notes left out, and an ellipsis where a passage stops mid-sentence. American spellings (honor, neighbor) are the translation’s own. You are free to copy, print and share it. More about the choice of translation is on the Bible verses page.