"render thanks" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used in a more formal or poetic context to mean "give thanks" or "express gratitude." Example: After receiving the prestigious award, she turned to the audience to render thanks to her mentors, colleagues, and family for their unwavering support.
Express themselves a little as well as render thanks.
The tables of sunrise & sunset for another 12-month are almost the only surefire commodity for which to render thanks to God.
Until we know that the playwright has collapsed or gone in with the piranha, until we know that's all behind, we shall innocently assume that all is ahead, and render thanks, at the customary thanks, at the customary time and in the customary way, for the previlege of a walk-on part in the show.
(An entire opening sequence, featuring pedestrians strolling under the Brooklyn Bridge, apparently drowning in self-perception, was ultimately rendered unusable, thanks to camera problems).
In fulfillment of a vow made by their predecessors, the consuls offered to Jupiter a white ox, his favourite sacrifice, and, after rendering thanks for the preservation of the state during the past year, they made the same vow as that by which their predecessors had been bound.
But the agony and the ecstasy of Trudy and Max's bond is convincingly rendered, thanks in large part to the freedom of Weston's performance and its enticing effect on Cash.
"In order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render greater thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned," Aquinas writes.
Sadly, at this time, some apps won't render correctly thanks to small differences between Android's Material Design interface and Oxygen.
"I use a combination of Adobe After Effects and Cinema 4D," says Vos Kakis, who has a small render farm thanks to some gifts from his girlfriend, as well as his photographer friend Patrick Latter.
It was also metaphysical: you had been chosen, made intelligible and harmonious by editors and finally rendered eligible, thanks to the magic that turns a manuscript into a book, for canonization and immortality.
Travelling to most EU countries has been rendered easier thanks to the single currency – as has the Schengen border-free zone (plenty of eastern EU destinations would have required a visa application a few decades ago).
