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.

She exclaimed with a loud voice, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child in your womb!

"Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. "Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

For you know that later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing with tears.

Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless others because you were called to inherit a blessing.

Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy aloud, and blessed are those who hear and obey the things written in it, because the time is near!

So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to shout, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!"

Bless those who persecute you, bless and do not curse.

Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?