19 Bible Verses About Thankfulness, Including Thanks When Things Go Wrong

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Resumo

  • Habakkuk 3:17-18 lists six failed crops and herds and then says, “yet I will rejoice in the Lord.”
  • Job 1:21 is said on the day Job learns his children have died, and the book goes on to record his grief and complaints.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:18 asks for thanks No all circumstances, not for them.
  • In Psalm 103:2 the psalmist tells himself to “forget not all his benefits” and then lists them.
  • Psalm 107 opens with a line of thanks and then tells four stories of people who were lost, imprisoned, sick or caught in a storm.

The Bible treats thankfulness as something practiced in every circumstance, including loss. The clearest example is Habakkuk, who lists a failed harvest and then says, “yet I will rejoice in the Lord” (Habakkuk 3:17-18). The nineteen verses below begin with thanks in hard times, then cover thanks as an instruction, what God has given, his daily provision, and giving thanks together in worship. Thanks with nothing in the barn Habakkuk 3:17-18 “Though the fig tree does not bud and there…

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As citações bíblicas são da Nova Versão Internacional.

Job’s complaint after 1:21 runs from Job 3 to Job 31; God answers at Job 38.

The four rescues summarised by Psalm 107:1 are told at Psalm 107:4-32.

Paul’s argument in 1 Timothy 4:4-5 answers the teaching described at 1 Timothy 4:1-3.

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