100 Bible Verses About Thanksgiving
Bible verses about Thanksgiving
Exploring Thanksgiving through scripture reveals its profound significance as more than just an annual holiday; it’s a continuous state of heart. The Bible teaches us that gratitude is a spiritual discipline, shaping our perspective and drawing us closer to God. By studying verses on thankfulness, we discover that acknowledging God’s blessings, both big and small, cultivates joy, strengthens faith, and fosters humility. Understanding biblical Thanksgiving transforms our daily lives, prompting us to recognize God's hand in every circumstance and respond with hearts overflowing with praise and appreciation.
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Psalms 35:28 (KJV)
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Thanksgiving Bible Verses: Gratitude & Praise
And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
And, behold, Boaz came from Beth–lehem, and said unto the reapers, The Lord be with you. And they answered him, The Lord bless thee.
Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And the border passed along to the side of Beth–hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.
And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
And the Lord sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee; and let thy judgments help me.
He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.
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;
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again.
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.
We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he shall command us.
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.
In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me:
Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the Lord do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.
And the damsel ran, and told them of her mother’s house these things.
And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.
For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.
And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath–rimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.
And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the Lord your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,
The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord to Mizpeh;
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.
The Bible's Thanksgiving verses offer a timeless guide to cultivating a grateful heart. From the Psalms' exuberant praises to Paul's earnest calls for thankfulness in all circumstances, we see a consistent emphasis on acknowledging God's provision and blessings. These scriptures remind us that gratitude is not merely a polite response, but a foundational aspect of a thriving relationship with the Divine. By reflecting on these passages, we're challenged to move beyond superficial expressions of thanks and delve into a deeper, more intentional practice of gratitude. Let these verses inspire you to pause, recognize, and genuinely appreciate the countless gifts, both big and small, that enrich your life, fostering a spirit of thankfulness that permeates every day, not just a single holiday.