1st Thessalonians Chapter 5 verse 18 Holy Bible

ASV 1stThessalonians 5:18

in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward.
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BBE 1stThessalonians 5:18

In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.
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DARBY 1stThessalonians 5:18

in everything give thanks, for this is [the] will of God in Christ Jesus towards you;
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KJV 1stThessalonians 5:18

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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WBT 1stThessalonians 5:18


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WEB 1stThessalonians 5:18

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
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YLT 1stThessalonians 5:18

in every thing give thanks, for this `is' the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.
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1st Thessalonians 5 : 18 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - In everything give thanks. In every circumstance - in joy and in sorrow; for everything - for prosperity and for adversity; in every place - in the house of God and on the bed of sickness; Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving; indeed, their prayers should partake largely of the nature of thanksgiving. For this; this thankful spirit. Is the will of God; his desire. In Christ Jesus; the sphere in which this will of God is displayed. Concerning you. God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) In every thing give thanks.--To the Christian who really trusts his Father's providence, and believes that his prayers are heard, every moment's occurrence will be just that which he has prayed for--the fulfilment of our Father's will. It is for this reason that thanksgiving is so inseparably joined with prayer. (See Philippians 4:6; Colossians 4:2.)This is the will of God--i.e., that you should be always full of thanksgiving. This clause hardly enforces thanksgiving as a duty, "Give thanks always, for you recognise the duty of doing God's will, and this is His will;" but rather encourages the Thessalonians to see that thankfulness is always possible. "Give thanks always, for God has no wish to give you cause for sorrow: His will towards you is to fill you with thankfulness." "Towards you" seems here a more exact rendering than "concerning you."In Christ Jesus.--This kind and loving will of God for our good was most abundantly manifested in the life and death and resurrection of Christ Jesus, and even to this day it is chiefly manifested in what Christ Jesus still is for us (e.g. Hebrews 6:19-20).