Ephesians 1:3

New Century Version

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In Christ, God has given us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world.

Cross References

Genesis 14:20

And we praise God Most High, who has helped you to defeat your enemies.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything he had brought back from the battle.

Genesis 22:18

Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed, because you obeyed me.’ ”

1 Chronicles 29:20

Then David said to all the people who were gathered, “Praise the Lord your God.” So they all praised the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and they bowed to the ground to give honor to the Lord and the king.

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez prayed to the God of Israel, “Please do good things for me and give me more land. Stay with me, and don’t let anyone hurt me. Then I won’t have any pain.” And God did what Jabez had asked.

2 Chronicles 31:8

When Hezekiah and his officers came and saw the piles, they praised the Lord and his people, the people of Israel.

Nehemiah 9:5

Then these Levites spoke: Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah. They said, “Stand up and praise the Lord your God, who lives forever and ever.” “Blessed be your wonderful name. It is more wonderful than all blessing and praise.

Psalm 134:3

May the Lord bless you from Mount Zion, he who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 72:17

Let the king be famous forever; let him be remembered as long as the sun shines. Let the nations be blessed because of him, and may they all bless him.

Psalm 72:19

Praise his glorious name forever. Let his glory fill the whole world. Amen and amen.

Isaiah 61:9

Everyone in all nations will know the children of my people, and their children will be known among the nations. Anyone who sees them will know that they are people the Lord has blessed.”

Daniel 4:34

At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up toward heaven, and I could think normally again! Then I gave praise to the Most High God; I gave honor and glory to him who lives forever. God’s rule is forever, and his kingdom continues for all time.

Luke 2:28

Simeon took the baby in his arms and thanked God:

John 14:20

On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and that you are in me and I am in you.

John 17:21

Father, I pray that they can be one. As you are in me and I am in you, I pray that they can also be one in us. Then the world will believe that you sent me.

John 20:17

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold on to me, because I have not yet gone up to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going back to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

Romans 12:5

In the same way, we are many, but in Christ we are all one body. Each one is a part of that body, and each part belongs to all the other parts.

Romans 15:6

Then you will all be joined together, and you will give glory to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:30

Because of God you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God. In Christ we are put right with God, and have been made holy, and have been set free from sin.

1 Corinthians 12:12

A person’s body is one thing, but it has many parts. Though there are many parts to a body, all those parts make only one body. Christ is like that also.

2 Corinthians 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is the Father who is full of mercy and all comfort.

2 Corinthians 11:31

God knows I am not lying. He is the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, and he is to be praised forever.

2 Corinthians 5:17

If anyone belongs to Christ, there is a new creation. The old things have gone; everything is made new!

2 Corinthians 5:21

Christ had no sin, but God made him become sin so that in Christ we could become right with God.

Galatians 3:9

So all who believe as Abraham believed are blessed just as Abraham was.

Ephesians 1:10

His goal was to carry out his plan, when the right time came, that all things in heaven and on earth would be joined together in Christ as the head.

Ephesians 1:17

asking the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you will know him better.

Ephesians 1:20

God used to raise Christ from the dead and put him at his right side in the heavenly world.

Ephesians 2:6

And he raised us up with Christ and gave us a seat with him in the heavens. He did this for those in Christ Jesus

Ephesians 3:10

His purpose was that through the church all the rulers and powers in the heavenly world will now know God’s wisdom, which has so many forms.

Ephesians 6:12

Our fight is not against people on earth but against the rulers and authorities and the powers of this world’s darkness, against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly world.

Philippians 2:11

And everyone will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and bring glory to God the Father.

Hebrews 8:5

The work they do as priests is only a copy and a shadow of what is in heaven. This is why God warned Moses when he was ready to build the Holy Tent: “Be very careful to make everything by the plan I showed you on the mountain.”

Hebrews 9:23

So the copies of the real things in heaven had to be made clean by animal sacrifices. But the real things in heaven need much better sacrifices.

1 Peter 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In God’s great mercy he has caused us to be born again into a living hope, because Jesus Christ rose from the dead.