40 Of The Best Bible Verses About Thanksgiving

40 of the Best Bible Verses About Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is coming up next month, and I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to look into which scriptures talk about thanksgiving/what the Bible says about thanksgiving. Although the Bible does not talk specifically about the traditional Thanksgiving holiday, it does, however, talk about giving thanks and praise to God. There are several mentions of the word ‘thanksgiving’ in the Bible, but it is more so referring to giving thanks to God and showing gratitude to Him. 

Being thankful and practicing gratitude are so very important to our walk with Christ because we need to show our appreciation towards all of the blessings that God has bestowed upon us. With everything that you have in your life and all that God has done for you, you should practice gratitude towards Him. Even just waking up and having another day in this world is worth thanking God for, because He is not done with you yet.

We often get too caught up in what is going on in our lives, and in this world, that we forget to take a step back and reflect upon all that God has provided for us. He hears and answers our prayers, He protect us and looks after us and He provides for us in so many different ways. 

There are many different ways to give thanks and practice gratitude towards God:

• Starting a gratitude journal
• Giving thanks in praise and worship/song and dance
• Reading Psalms out aloud (because you’ll notice that David practiced a lot of thanksgiving towards God)
• Staying in prayer daily and thanking God for all the things that He has done for you
• Taking time out of the day to reflect upon all the blessings that He has bestowed up on you
• Writing down things that you are thankful for 

Without further ado, here are 40 of the Best Bible Verses About Thanksgiving:

1. 1 Chronicles 16:8 – “Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people”. 
2. 1 Chronicles 16:34 – “ O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever”. 
3. 1 Chronicles 29:13 – “Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name”. 
4. Psalm 4:7 – “Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased”. 
5. Psalm 7:17 – “ I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high”. 
6. Psalm 26:7 – “That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works”. 
7. Psalm 31:19 – “Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!”
8. Psalm 50:14 – “Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:”
9. Psalm 69:30 – “I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving”.
10. Psalm 95:1-6 – “O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker”. 
11. Psalm 100:1-5 – “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations”. 
12. Psalm 103:1-4 – “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;”
13. Psalm 107:1-3 – “O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy; And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south”.
14. Psalm 118:24 – “This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it”. 
15. Psalm 119:1-8 – “Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly”.
16. Isaiah 9:3 – “Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil”. 
17. Isaiah 12:1-6 – “And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee”. 
18. Jeremiah 5:24 – “Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest”.
19. Jeremiah 30:19 – “And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small”.
20. Lamentations 3:23 – “They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness”. 
21. Daniel 2:23 – “I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s matter”. 
22. Jonah 2:9 – “ But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord”. 
23. Matthew 6:25-34 – “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof”. 
24. Matthew 7:7-8 – “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened”.
25. Romans 1:8 – “First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world”. 
26. 1 Corinthians 15:57 – “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ”. 
27. 2 Corinthians 2:14 – “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place”. 
28. 2 Corinthians 9:10-11 – “Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;) Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God”. 
29. 2 Corinthians 9:15 – “Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift”.
30. Ephesians 5:18-20 – “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;”
31. Philippians 4:4-7 – “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus”.
32. Colossians 2:6-7 – “As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving”.
33. Colossians 3:15-17 – “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him”. 
34. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 – “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you”. 
35. 1 Timothy 4:4-5 – “For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer”.
36. Hebrews 12:28 – “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:”
37. Hebrews 13:15 – “By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name”. 
38. James 1:17 – “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning”. 
39. Revelation 4:11 – “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created”. 
40. Revelation 7:12 – “Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen”. 

If you are struggling with what to be thankful for this year, then check out these 15 things that all Christians should be thankful for. 

Learn more about Christian gratitude here.

This is how you show gratitude towards God.

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