Bible Verses AboutGratitude
Bible verses about Gratitude
The scriptures overflow with wisdom on gratitude, revealing it's not just a polite sentiment, but a cornerstone of spiritual well-being. Exploring these verses allows us to understand gratitude as a deliberate act of recognizing God's abundant blessings in our lives, both big and small. Through scripture, we learn that a grateful heart shifts our focus from what we lack to the overflowing goodness surrounding us, fostering joy, peace, and a deeper connection with the Divine. By meditating on these verses, we can cultivate a spirit of thankfulness that transforms our perspective and aligns us with God's loving purpose.
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And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
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Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,
Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way.
O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before the Lord thy God.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
Upon man’s flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.
And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Of the sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites: of Guni, the family of the Gunites:
Let them now that fear the Lord say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.
Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers.
Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord.
Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,
And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, which was commanded to be given to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the offerings of the priests.
The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Peruda,
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper.
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath–jearim.
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses.
The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.
All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Therefore the king said unto Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king sware unto him.
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.
And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.
And the Lord visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the Lord.
After him repaired Benjamin and Hashub over against their house. After him repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah by his house.
Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the Lord will dwell in it for ever.
Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.
And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
Thou art the Lord the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham;
He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite,
And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
And he enquired of the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
And now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.
And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.
And the Lord shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.
And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
For thou art my lamp, O Lord: and the Lord will lighten my darkness.
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
This gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter.
And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.
O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.
Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.
Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.
He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.
And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.
When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.
That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the Lord shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.
And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.
And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.
David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.
And he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he cometh not unto the king’s table.
I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
The Lord preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days:
My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.
Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.
The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them;
And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded.
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.
Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.
And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side Jordan.
And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Reflection
Contemplating Gratitude
In essence, the Bible's verses on gratitude reveal a profound connection between a thankful heart and a flourishing spirit. They underscore that gratitude isn't merely a polite response, but a foundational element of faith, shaping our perspective, fostering contentment, and deepening our relationship with God. Whether acknowledging divine provision, celebrating answered prayers, or finding blessings even amidst trials, these scriptures urge us to cultivate an attitude of thankfulness that permeates every aspect of our lives. As we meditate on these verses, let us be challenged to actively express gratitude, both to God and to others, recognizing the countless blessings that enrich our existence. By embracing a lifestyle of thankfulness, we can experience greater joy, cultivate stronger relationships, and live more fully in God's grace.
May these verses about gratitude bring wisdom and guidance to your spiritual journey
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