While thanksgiving takes center stage every fall, in reality, an attitude of thanks is one we should maintain throughout the year. Yet, that can prove difficult when the challenges of life make us anything but grateful!
Focusing on scripture is one strategy that never fails to lift my spirits, increase my joy, and shift my perspective.
Below you’ll find a few of my favorite verses about thankfulness. I hope these encouraging words leave you blessed and inspire you to keep a grateful heart all year long.
Verses About thankfulness for his love and faithfulness
Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
Psalms 107:8-9 NIV
Praise the Lord! Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.
Psalms 106:1 NLT
I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
Psalms 9:1 NIV
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
2 Corinthians 9:15 NIV
Give thanks to the Lord and proclaim his greatness. Let the whole world know what he has done.
Psalms 105:1 NLT
Verses about thankfulness in hard times
Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NLT
And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.
Colossians 3:17 NLT
Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.
Colossians 2:7 NLT
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.
Hebrews 12:28 NIV
Read “Keeping a Grateful Heart When God’s Answer is No“ for more encouragement on remaining thankful through difficult circumstances.
Verses about thankfulness through worship
Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
Psalms 100:4 NIV
Then I will praise God’s name with singing, and I will honor him with thanksgiving.
Psalms 69:30 NLT
Let us come to him with thanksgiving. Let us sing psalms of praise to him. For the Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods.
Psalms 95:2-3 NLT
That my heart may sing your praises and not be silent. Lord my God, I will praise you forever.
Psalms 30:12 NIV
I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness; I will sing the praises of the name of the Lord Most High.
Psalms 7:17 NIV
Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name.
1 Chronicles 29:13 NIV
I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.
Psalms 86:12 NIV
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