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Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
Psalms 50:14 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
  • BSB Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
  • NKJV Offer to God thanksgiving, And pay your vows to the Most High.
  • NASB “Offer God a sacrifice of thanksgiving And pay your vows to the Most High;
  • NLT Make thankfulness your sacrifice to God, and keep the vows you made to the Most High.

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Quick answer

God desires thankful worship and the faithful keeping of vows. He wants grateful, sincere devotion, not mere ritual.

Overview

In place of empty formalism, God calls for the 'sacrifice of thanksgiving' and integrity in fulfilling one's vows to Him. This is the kind of worship He truly delights in—offered from a grateful and obedient heart. Hebrews 13:15 carries this forward, urging a continual 'sacrifice of praise' to God through Christ.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Heb 13:15Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
  • Ps 56:12Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.
  • Deut 23:21When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
  • Ps 107:21–22Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!
  • Ps 116:12–14What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?
  • 1 Pet 2:5You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Ps 76:11Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
  • Hos 14:2Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
  • Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
  • 1 Th 5:18In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
  • Ps 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
  • Ps 147:1Praise Yah, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.
  • Ps 69:30–31I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
  • Eccl 5:4–5When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
  • 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
  • Ps 116:17–18I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on Yahweh’s name.
  • Nah 1:15Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
  • Num 30:2–16When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
  • Lev 27:2–34“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘When a man consecrates a person to Yahweh in a vow, according to your valuation,
  • Ps 27:6Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me; I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
  • Ps 22:25Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.
  • Ps 65:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. To you shall vows be performed.
  • Ps 61:8So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfill my vows daily.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 50:14 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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