Parallel Verses
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!
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,
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 and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 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! 4 He chose us in him ere the world was founded, to be consecrated and unblemished in his sight,
Phrases
Cross References
2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,
Ephesians 6:12
For we have to struggle, not with blood and flesh but with the angelic Rulers, the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit-forces of evil in the heavenly sphere.
Ephesians 1:20
which he exerted in raising Christ from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavenly sphere,
Ephesians 2:6
together with Christ he raised and seated us within the heavenly sphere in Christ Jesus,
Romans 15:6
that you may unite in a chorus of praise and glory to 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 for ever, He knows I am telling the truth!
1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Luke 2:28
then Symeon took him in his arms, blessed God, and said,
John 10:29-30
My Father who gave me them is stronger than all, and no one can snatch anything out of the Father's hand.
John 14:20
You will understand, on that day, that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.
John 15:2-5
he cuts away any branch on me which is not bearing fruit, and cleans every branch which does bear fruit, to make it bear richer fruit.
John 17:21
may they all be one! As thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, so may they be in us ??that the world may believe thou hast sent me.
John 20:17
Jesus said, "Cease clinging to me. I have not ascended yet to the Father, but go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and yours, to my God and yours.'"
Romans 12:5
so too, for all our numbers, we form one Body in Christ and we are severally members one of another.
1 Corinthians 1:30
This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;
1 Corinthians 12:12
As the human body is one and has many members, all the members of the body forming one body for all their number, so is it with Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17
There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Galatians 3:9
So that those who rely on faith are blessed along with believing Abraham.
Ephesians 1:10
so to order it in the fulness of the ages that all things in heaven and earth alike should be gathered up in Christ ??11 in the Christ in whom we have had our heritage allotted us (as was decreed in the design of him who carries out everything according to the counsel of his will),
Ephesians 1:17
May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, grant you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation for the knowledge of himself,
Philippians 2:11
and every tongue confess that 'Jesus Christ is Lord,' to the glory of God the Father.
Hebrews 8:5
(men who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly ??as Moses was instructed, when he was about to execute the building of the tabernacle: see, God said, that you make everything on the pattern shown you upon the mountain).
Hebrews 9:23
Now, while the copies of the heavenly things had to be cleansed with sacrifices like these, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices.
Revelation 4:9-11
And whenever the living Creatures render glory and honour and thanksgiving to him who is seated on the throne, who lives for ever and ever,
Revelation 5:9-14
singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;