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Prayer of Thanksgiving
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed throughout the world.
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Otherwise, if you say a blessing with the spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say the “Amen” to your thanksgiving, since the outsider 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 the God of all consolation,
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Indeed, everything is for your sake, so that grace, when it has extended to more and more people, may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
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You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us,
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for the rendering of this ministry not only supplies the needs of the saints but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God.
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Entirely out of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving.
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Do not be anxious 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
Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.
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Thanksgiving
We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, 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 everyone,
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They forbid marriage and abstain from certain 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, provided it is received with thanksgiving,
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Thanksgiving and Encouragement
I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.
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singing, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”