17 Bible Verses About Thanking God and Giving Thanks



  • Leviticus 7:15 required a thank offering to be eaten the same day, so private gratitude became a table full of guests.
  • Psalm 69:30 sets song against sacrifice and says the cheaper one pleases God more than an ox.
  • Daniel thanks God for the exact item he had asked for rather than praising in general.
  • Paul attaches thanksgiving to an involuntary act: every time I remember you.
  • Revelation 11:17 drops the third part of the formula — “who is to come” — because what was coming has arrived.

Thanksgiving in the Old Testament was an animal, brought to a priest and eaten the same day. Leviticus 7:15 sets the rule: the meat of a fellowship offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day it is offered, and none of it left till morning. A man bringing one had to find enough people to help him finish it, so private relief became a shared meal before the sun went down. The seventeen verses below follow the forms thanks…

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