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Psalm 54:6

With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, LORD, for it is good.

4Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.
5He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.
6With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, LORD, for it is good.
7For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
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A free will offering makes gratitude tangible, as David moves from asking for help to promising sacrifice and thanks for the goodness of God’s name.

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Where else Scripture says this

6 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 52:9I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.Both verses pledge thanks to God and give the same reason for honoring his name: it is good.
Psalm 147:1Praise the LORD, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.Both speak of praise and goodness: Psalm 54 names God’s name as good, while Psalm 147 calls singing his praise good.
Psalm 140:13Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence.Both speak of giving thanks to God’s name, one as a personal pledge and the other as the response of the righteous.
Psalm 7:17I will give thanks to the LORD according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.Both pledge thanks to the LORD and honor his name, with goodness named here and righteousness in Psalm 7.
Lamentations 3:26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.The shared thread is limited: both speak of goodness in relation to the LORD, though one pledges thanks and the other commends waiting.
Deuteronomy 12:6–7You shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, your vows, your free will offerings, and the firstborn of …Deuteronomy names free will offerings among the offerings Israel should bring; David pledges to sacrifice with such an offering.
Where this verse fits

Gratitude. answered prayer. praise and worship.

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Encouragement

Danger has been part of David’s prayer, and now he pledges willing thanks. Your gratitude has the same firm ground: YHWH’s name is good.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).