fact that both praise and thanksgiving are proper responses to God, praise is likely to be at the centre of the Pauline emphasis on thanksgiving. Despite the connections between thanksgiving and praise in the Old Testament, differences between the two have frequently been noted. Nitzan (1994: 175), for example, has suggested that in songs of praise, all creatures honour God, ‘extolling His sovereignty over the Creation as a whole and upon all mankind’. Songs of thanksgiving, on the other hand, ‘express