20 آية من الكتاب المقدس عن الامتنان وتقديم الشكر في جميع الظروف



  • 1 Thessalonians 5:18 says to give thanks in all circumstances, which does not require calling a bad thing good.
  • Jonah sings his thanksgiving from inside the fish; the rescue comes in the next verse.
  • After a decree against praying to anyone but the king, Daniel keeps praying and giving thanks three times a day, “just as he had done before.”
  • Psalm 136 repeats “His love endures forever” in all twenty-six of its verses.
  • Romans 1:21 names the failure to give thanks as part of how human thinking “became futile.”

The Bible asks for gratitude in every situation, including hard ones, and grounds it in God’s goodness rather than in how things are going. Paul’s instruction in 1 Thessalonians 5:18 is to “give thanks in all circumstances,” which does not require calling a bad thing good; Ephesians 5:20 goes further and says “for everything.” Jonah, Daniel and David give thanks while still in trouble, and the refrain “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good” recurs in the Psalms…

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