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Prayer of Thanksgiving
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
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Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how can any one in the position of an outsider say the “Amen” to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying?
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Paul’s Thanksgiving after Affliction
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
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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.
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You will be enriched in every way for great generosity, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God;
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for the rendering of this service not only supplies the wants of the saints but also overflows in many thanksgivings to God.
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Let there be no filthiness, nor silly talk, nor levity, which are not fitting; but instead let there be thanksgiving.
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Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
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rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
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Further Instructions
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving;
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For what thanksgiving can we render to God for you, for all the joy which we feel for your sake before our God,
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Thanksgiving
We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
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Instructions concerning Prayer
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men,
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who forbid marriage and enjoin abstinence from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
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For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;
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Thanksgiving and Encouragement
I thank God whom I serve with a clear conscience, as did my fathers, when I remember you constantly in my prayers.
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saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.”
