15 Bible Verses About Thanksgiving and Gratitude

The Bible calls for thanks to God because he is good and his love endures. Its passages include the refrain “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good” (1 Chronicles 16:34, Psalm 107:1, Psalm 136:1), Paul’s “give thanks in all circumstances” (1 Thessalonians 5:18), and the healed man who came back to thank Jesus (Luke 17:15-16). In the Psalms, give thanks usually translates the Hebrew verb yadah, which also means to praise or to confess, and thanksgiving translates todah,…