100 Bible Verses About Gratitude
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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Isaiah 49:16 (KJV)
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Gratitude Verses: Find Joy & Thankfulness in Scripture
And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.
When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.
And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the fourteen lambs:
He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.
But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.
And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord.
And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? who can shew forth all his praise?
And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God.
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.
And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer–sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion–geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.
He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them.
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
And they had in their inheritance Beer–sheba, Sheba, and Moladah,
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.
Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever.
And a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.
Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
That the Lord appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.
The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.
And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen.
And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
And Og the king of Bashan: for his mercy endureth for ever:
But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.
Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,
God is the Lord, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon.
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.
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
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.
The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:
Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the Lord. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the Lord.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
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.