Ephesians 1:3

New English Translation

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.

Cross References

Genesis 14:20

Worthy of praise is the Most High God, who delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.

Genesis 22:18

Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”

1 Chronicles 29:20

David told the entire assembly: “Praise the Lord your God!” So the entire assembly praised the Lord God of their ancestors; they bowed down and stretched out flat on the ground before the Lord and the king.

1 Chronicles 4:10

Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only you would greatly bless me and expand my territory! May your hand be with me! Keep me from harm so I might not endure pain!” God answered his prayer.

2 Chronicles 31:8

When Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the Lord and pronounced blessings on his people Israel.

Nehemiah 9:5

The Levites – Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah – said, “Stand up and bless the lord your God!” “May you be blessed, O lord our God, from age to age. May your glorious name be blessed; may it be lifted up above all blessing and praise.

Psalm 134:3

May the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion!

Psalm 72:17

May his fame endure! May his dynasty last as long as the sun remains in the sky! May they use his name when they formulate their blessings! May all nations consider him to be favored by God!

Psalm 72:19

His glorious name deserves praise forevermore! May his majestic splendor fill the whole earth! We agree! We agree!

Isaiah 61:9

Their descendants will be known among the nations, their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will recognize that the Lord has blessed them.”

Daniel 4:34

But at the end of the appointed time I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up toward heaven, and my sanity returned to me. I extolled the Most High, and I praised and glorified the one who lives forever. For his authority is an everlasting authority, and his kingdom extends from one generation to the next.

Luke 2:28

Simeon took him in his arms and blessed God, saying,

John 14:20

You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

John 17:21

that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

John 20:17

Jesus replied, “Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”

Romans 12:5

so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

Romans 15:6

so that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:30

He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

1 Corinthians 12:12

For just as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body – though many – are one body, so too is Christ.

2 Corinthians 1:3

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

2 Corinthians 11:31

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows I am not lying.

2 Corinthians 5:17

So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed away – look, what is new has come!

2 Corinthians 5:21

God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.

Galatians 3:9

So then those who believe are blessed along with Abraham the believer.

Ephesians 1:10

toward the administration of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ – the things in heaven and the things on earth.

Ephesians 1:17

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,

Ephesians 1:20

This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

Ephesians 2:6

and he raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 3:10

The purpose of this enlightenment is that through the church the multifaceted wisdom of God should now be disclosed to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms.

Ephesians 6:12

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.

Philippians 2:11

and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

Hebrews 8:5

The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says, “See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”

Hebrews 9:23

So it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves required better sacrifices than these.

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,