Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Having a due sense of benefits received; kindly disposed toward one from whom a favor has been received; willing to acknowledge and repay, or give thanks for, benefits; as, a grateful heart. 2. (a.) Affording pleasure; pleasing to the senses; gratifying; delicious; as, a grateful present; food grateful to the palate; grateful sleep.

Multi-Version Concordance Grateful (4 Occurrences) Romans 16:4 friends who have endangered their own lives for mine. I am grateful to them, and not I alone, but all the Gentile Churches also. (WEY NIV) 1 Corinthians 10:30 If, so far as I am concerned, I partake with a grateful heart, why am I to be found fault with in regard to a thing for which I give thanks?" (WEY) 2 Corinthians 2:15 For we are a fragrance of Christ grateful to God in those whom He is saving and in those who are perishing; (WEY) Hebrews 12:28 wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear; (See RSV)