thanksgiving
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18Give thanks in everything. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for all of you.
1Alleluia. Confess to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy is with every generation.
15And let the peace of Christ lift up your hearts. For in this peace, you have been called, as one body. And be thankful.
2Pursue prayer. Be watchful in prayer with acts of thanksgiving.
14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.
4Enter his gates with confession, his courts with hymns, and acknowledge him. Praise his name.
6Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.
18I will confess to the Lord according to his justice, and I will sing a psalm to the name of the Lord Most High.
1A Psalm of Confession. 2Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. Serve the Lord with rejoicing. Enter into his sight in exultation. 3Know that the Lord himself is God. He made us, and we ourselves did not. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. 4Enter his gates with confession, his courts with hymns, and acknowledge him. Praise his name. 5For the Lord is sweet, his mercy is in eternity, and his truth is from generation to generation.
15Therefore, through him, let us offer the sacrifice of continual praise to God, which is the fruit of lips confessing his name.
7The Lord is my helper and my protector. In him, my heart has hoped and I have been helped. And my flesh has flourished again. And from my will, I shall confess to him.
31I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.
34Confess to the Lord, for he is good. For his mercy is eternal.
17Every excellent gift and every perfect gift is from above, descending from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor any shadow of alteration.
6Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God. 7And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
20giving thanks always for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God the Father.
14But thanks be to God, who always brings triumph to us in Christ Jesus, and who manifests the fragrance of his knowledge through us in every place.
16Rejoice always. 17Pray without ceasing. 18Give thanks in everything. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for all of you.