Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
- BSB Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
- NKJV Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
- NASB Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
- NLT Thank God for this gift too wonderful for words!
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Paul bursts into praise for God's indescribable gift. All generosity ultimately points back to the supreme gift of Christ Himself.
Overview
The discussion of giving climaxes in worship: 'Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!' That gift is most fully understood as Christ and the salvation He brings, a grace beyond words. Every act of human generosity is but a faint echo of God's own immeasurable self-giving in His Son.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 22
- 2 Cor 2:14Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
- John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
- Eph 5:20Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
- Rom 8:32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
- Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
- Rev 4:9And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
- 1 Cor 15:57But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 Jn 5:11–12And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- John 1:16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
- Ps 30:12To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
- Rom 5:15But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
- Isa 49:6And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
- 1 Chr 16:8Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.
- 2 Cor 9:11Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
- 1 Jn 4:9–10In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
- Ps 92:1IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH:
- Isa 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
- Ps 30:4Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
- Luke 2:14Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
- 1 Chr 16:35And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
- Luke 2:38And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
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