Jesus said to her, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

that with one accord you may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forevermore, knows that I do not lie.

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

Who

And I will make of you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great. And you will be a blessing.

In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow. God granted him that which he requested.

His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

May the LORD bless you from Zion; even he who made heaven and earth.

Their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the LORD has blessed."

So then, those who are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

Heavenly

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

to the intent that now through the church the manifold wisdom of God might be made known to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places,

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world's rulers of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.

Places, or, things

In christ

to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things on the earth, in him;

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

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

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

And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, new things have come.

General references

Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;