four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, for giving praise."
Of Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising the LORD.
But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.
whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,
Even things without life, giving a voice, whether pipe or harp, if they didn't give a distinction in the sounds, how would it be known what is piped or harped?
Otherwise if you bless with the spirit, how will he who fills the place of the unlearned say the "Amen" at your giving of thanks, seeing he doesn't know what you say?
So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you shall receive them. You shall accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household."
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.
He built up the altar of the LORD, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.
For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.
you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God.
For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;
giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
He supposed that his brothers understood that God, by his hand, was giving them deliverance; but they didn't understand.
God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord the LORD.
giving thanks to the Father, who made us fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
They sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to the LORD, "For he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever toward Israel." All the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking."
They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to the LORD.
For the LORD has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, to the house of the LORD.
Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to the LORD of Armies, for the LORD is good, for his loving kindness endures forever; [and of them] who bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says the LORD.
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And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
And the second Mark 12:31 [is] like, [namely] this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
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