'Bless' in the Bible

bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.”

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

and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;

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

Otherwise if you bless in the spirit only, how will the one who fills the place of the ungifted say the “Amen” at your giving of thanks, since he does not know what you are saying?

saying, “I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.”

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God;