Thanksgiving

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,

Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?

For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.

You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.

For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,

Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

I thank my God in all my remembrance of you,

do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Further Instructions

Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.

For what thanksgiving can we return to God for you, for all the joy that we feel for your sake before our God,

Thanksgiving

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

Pray for All People

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,

who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”