Bible Verses about βthanksgiving dayβ
The Bible contains 46 verses about thanksgiving day across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
βEvery 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.β
βIn every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.β
βPray without ceasing.β
βΒΆ Rejoice evermore.β
βAnd let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.β
βKnow 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.β
βEnter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name.β
βServe the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.β
βΒΆ A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.β
βΒΆ First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.β
βFor the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is] everlasting; and his truth [endureth] to all generations.β
βThou 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.β
βPreaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.β
βAnd it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.β
βI 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.β
βAnd the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.β
βAnd when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid [them] on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.β
βAnd when the barbarians saw the [venomous] beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.β
βAnd he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.β
βΒΆ I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.β
βBe it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and [that] they will hear it.β
βHowbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.β
βBut when the Jews spake against [it], I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.β
βFor the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with [their] ears, and understand with [their] heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.β
βΒΆ And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.β
βIn the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.β
βSo when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:β
βWho also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded [us] with such things as were necessary.β
βΒΆ And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.β
βBut we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.β
βΒΆ And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into [his] lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and [out of] the prophets, from morning till evening.β
βAnd some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.β
βAnd when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,β
βSaying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:β
βAnd when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.β
βΒΆ And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,β
βOffer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:β
βAnd landing at Syracuse, we tarried [there] three days.β
βAnd from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:β
βWhere we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.β
βAnd from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage.β
βAnd when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.β
βΒΆ And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men [and] brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.β
βWho, when they had examined me, would have let [me] go, because there was no cause of death in me.β
βFor this cause therefore have I called for you, to see [you], and to speak with [you]: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.β
βAnd they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.β
