Parallel Verses
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.
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:
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,
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!
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 be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ. 4 Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish in his sight.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:3
Thanks be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,
Ephesians 6:12
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, the empires, the rulers of this present darkness, the spirit-hosts of evil in the heavenly realm.
Ephesians 1:20
which he exercised in raising Christ from the dead, and in seating him at his right hand in the heavenly heights,
Ephesians 2:6
together with him He raised us from the dead, and together with Christ Jesus seated us in the heavenly realm,
Ephesians 3:10
in order that now his manifold wisdom should, through the church, be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly sphere,
Romans 15:6
so that with one heart and with one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is blessed forever, knows that I am telling the truth.
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whose great mercy we have been born anew into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead;
Luke 2:28
he took him up in his arms and blessed God and said,
John 10:29-30
"My Father who has given them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.
John 14:20
"At that day you shall understand that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
John 15:2-5
"He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.
John 17:21
that they may all be one, even as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be in us; in order that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
John 20:17
"Do not cling to me," said Jesus, "for I am not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to 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 we are severally members of one another.
1 Corinthians 1:30
It is of him that you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
1 Corinthians 12:12
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, although they be many, are one body; so also is Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17
So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.
2 Corinthians 5:21
Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Galatians 3:9
So then they who are children of faith are blessed with Abraham the faithful;
Ephesians 1:10
for the government of the fulness of the ages, that all things in heaven and earth are alike should be gathered up in Christ, as Head.
Ephesians 1:17
I am praying that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father most glorious, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation, through an intimate knowledge of himself;
Philippians 2:11
and every tongue confess that "Jesus Christ is Lord," to the glory of God the Father.
Hebrews 9:23
While, then, it was necessary that the copies of the heavenly things should be cleansed by such sacrifices, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices than these.
Revelation 4:9-11
And whenever the Living Creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever,
Revelation 5:9-14
And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book And to open its seals; For thou wast slain and didst ransom for God Men out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation;