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20 Bible Verses About Gratefulness and Giving Thanks in All Circumstances

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Summary

  • 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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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Jonah is released in the verse after his song, at Jonah 2:10.

The decree that made Daniel’s prayer a capital offence is at Daniel 6:6-9.

Psalm 28 opens with David pleading not to be dragged away with the wicked, at 28:1-3.

The nine who did not return are asked after at Luke 17:17-18.

The refrain of Psalm 107:1 recurs at Psalm 118:1, Psalm 136:1 and 1 Chronicles 16:34, and is sung at the dedication of the temple in 2 Chronicles 7:3.

The shaken mountain behind Hebrews 12:28 is described at Hebrews 12:18-21.

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