Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Holman Bible
Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.
International Standard Version
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah! He has blessed us in the Messiah with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm,
A Conservative Version
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly things in Christ.
American Standard Version
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:
Amplified
An Understandable Version
May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be praised, for He has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in [fellowship with] Christ. [Note: The term "heavenly realms" is used somewhat differently throughout this book. Here it refers to Christians as part of the church on earth].
Anderson New Testament
Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly things in Christ,
Bible in Basic English
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:
Common New Testament
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
Daniel Mace New Testament
Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all the spiritual blessings in Christ's kingdom.
Darby Translation
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;
Godbey New Testament
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one having blessed us with all spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ:
Goodspeed New Testament
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.
John Wesley New Testament
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places through Christ,
Julia Smith Translation
Praised be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, he having praised us in every spiritual praise in heavenly things in Christ:
King James 2000
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Modern King James verseion
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Blessed be God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which hath blessed us with all manner of spiritual blessings in heavenly things by Christ,
Moffatt New Testament
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who in Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly sphere!
Montgomery New Testament
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
Noyes New Testament
Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly regions in Christ;
Sawyer New Testament
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [worlds] in Christ,
The Emphasized Bible
Blessed, be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing, in the heavenlies, in Christ,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly things in Christ;
Twentieth Century New Testament
Blessed is the God and Father of Jesus Christ, our Lord, who has blessed us on high with every spiritual blessing, in Christ.
Webster
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Weymouth New Testament
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has crowned us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ;
Williams New Testament
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm.
World English Bible
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
Worrell New Testament
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
Worsley New Testament
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly things by Christ;
Youngs Literal Translation
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
Themes
Atonement » Made by jesus » Divinely ordained
the Blessed » Whom God chooses
Coming of the lord jesus Christ » Who
Forgiveness » The forgiveness of sins coming through the blood of jesus Christ
Gathering » The lord gathering his saints
Praise » Is due to God on account of » All spiritual blessings
Predestination » The lord predestining
Predestination » Who God predestines
Topics
Interlinear
Devotionals
Devotionals about Ephesians 1:3
Devotionals containing Ephesians 1:3
References
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Ephesians 1:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise To God For Spiritual Blessings
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ, 4 just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, [that] we should be holy and blameless before him in love,
Phrases
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
Ephesians 6:12
because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].
Ephesians 1:20
which he has worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating [him] at his right hand in the heavenly [places],
Ephesians 2:6
and raised [us] together and seated [us] together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus,
Ephesians 3:10
in order that the many-sided wisdom of God might be made known now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly [places] through the church,
Genesis 22:18
All the nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring, because you have listened to my voice."
Romans 15:6
so that with one mind you may glorify with one mouth the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed {forever}, knows that I am not lying.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Genesis 12:2-3
And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing.
Genesis 14:20
And blessed [be] God Most High who delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave to him a tenth of everything.
1 Chronicles 4:10
And Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would surely bless me and enlarge my border. And may your hand be with me, that you would keep me from evil so that it might not harm me!" And God granted what he asked.
1 Chronicles 29:20
And David said to all the assembly, "Bless Yahweh your God!" And all the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. And they bowed down and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.
Nehemiah 9:5
Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, "Stand up, bless Yahweh your God from everlasting until everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name that is being exalted above all blessing and praise!
Psalm 72:17
May his name endure forever. May his name increase {as long as the sun shines}, and let them be blessed in him. Let all nations call him blessed.
Psalm 72:19
And blessed be his glorious name forever, and may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.
Psalm 134:3
May Yahweh bless you from Zion, [he who] made heaven and earth.
Isaiah 61:9
And their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. All those who see them shall recognize them, that they [are] descendants [whom] Yahweh has blessed.
Daniel 4:34
"But at the end of {that period}, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and [then] my reason returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and {the one who lives forever} I praised and I honored. "For his sovereignty [is] [an] everlasting sovereignty, and his kingdom [continues] from generation to generation.
Luke 2:28
he took him in [his] arms and praised God and said,
John 10:29-30
My Father, who has given [them] to me, is greater than all, and no one can seize [them] from the Father's hand.
John 14:20
On that day you will know that I [am] in my Father, and you [are] in me, and I [am] in you.
John 15:2-5
Every branch that does not bear fruit in me, he removes it, and every [branch] that bears fruit, he prunes it in order that it may bear more fruit.
John 17:21
that they all may be one, just as you, Father, [are] in me and I [am] in you, that they also may be in us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me.
John 20:17
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, and my God and your God.'"
Romans 12:5
in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ, and {individually} members of one another,
1 Corinthians 1:30
But from him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
1 Corinthians 12:12
For just as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, [although they] are many, are one body, thus also Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creation; the old [things] have passed away; behold, new [things] have come.
2 Corinthians 5:21
He made the one who did not know sin [to be] sin on our behalf, in order that we could become the righteousness of God in him.
Galatians 3:9
So then, the ones [who have] faith are blessed together with Abraham who believed.
Ephesians 1:10
for the administration of the fullness of times, to bring together all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him
Ephesians 1:17
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, {the glorious Father}, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him
Philippians 2:11
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Hebrews 8:5
who serve a sketch and shadow of the heavenly [things], just as Moses was warned [when he] was about to complete the tabernacle, for he says, "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain."
Hebrews 9:23
Therefore [it was] necessary [for] the sketches of the [things] in heaven to be purified with these [sacrifices], but the heavenly [things] themselves [to be purified] with better sacrifices than these.
Revelation 4:9-11
And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who is seated on the throne, the one who lives {forever and ever},
Revelation 5:9-14
And they were singing a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slaughtered, and bought [people] for God by your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation,