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.

For from His bounty we have all received spiritual blessing after spiritual blessing.

Keep on blessing your persecutors; keep on blessing and stop cursing them.

For you know that, when later he wanted to get possession of the blessing, he was rejected, for he could find no opportunity to repent, although with tears he tried to get the blessing.

But He gives a greater spiritual blessing. He says, "God opposes haughty people but blesses humble people."

never returning evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but blessing instead, because it was for this that you were called, to obtain the blessing of heirs.

and with a loud shout she said: "Blessed are you among women, And blessed is your child!

Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be completely satisfied! Blessed are you who are weeping now, for you will laugh!

I now leave you the blessing of peace, I give you the blessing of my own peace. I myself do not give it in the way the world gives it. Stop letting your hearts be troubled or timid.

And after He had taken His place at table with them, He took the loaf and blessed it and broke it in pieces and handed it to them.

Then He led them out as far as Bethany, and lifted up His hands and blessed them.

And while He was blessing them, He parted from them, and was taken up to heaven.

So the Word became human and lived a little while among us, and we actually saw His glory, the glory of One who is an only Son from His Father, and He was full of spiritual blessing and truth.

For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.

And you are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the sacred compact which God made with your forefathers, when He said to Abraham: 'All the families of the earth are to be blessed through your posterity.'

It was to you first that He sent His Servant, after raising Him from the dead, to bless you by causing every one of you to turn from his wicked ways."

When he reached there and saw the spiritual blessing God had given them, he was delighted, and continuously encouraged them all with hearty purpose to continue to be devoted to the Lord;

to all those in Rome who are God's loved ones, called to be His people: spiritual blessing and peace be yours from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

for they had utterly transformed the reality of God into what was unreal, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

the patriarchs, and from them by natural descent the Christ has come, who is exalted over all, God blessed forever. Amen!

And I feel sure that when I do come to you, I shall come with Christ's abundant blessing on me.

Now the peace-giving God will soon crush Satan under your feet. The spiritual blessing of our Lord Jesus be with you.

spiritual blessing and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

I am always thanking God for you, for the spiritual blessing given you by God through union with Christ Jesus;

because you have in everything been richly blessed through union with Him, with perfect expression and fullness of knowledge.

We have worked hard with our own hands for a living. When abused by people, we bless them. When persecuted, we patiently bear it.