Blessing (3/4)

Blessed be the God, and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who… Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God,
and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ
with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.
Ephesians 1:3 praise heaven
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Matthew 5:4 sadness comforter

And so now, O Israel, what does the Lord, your God, require of you but to fear the Lord, your God, to walk in all of his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, and to observe the commandments and the statutes that I am giving you today for your own good.
Deuteronomy 10:12-13 law awe serving
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage.
Psalm 33:12 God reward
The tongue has the power over life and death;
those who cherish it will enjoy its fruits.
Proverbs 18:21 speaking self-control fruitfulness
However, the one who looks intently at the perfect law of freedom and perseveres—not forgetting what he has heard but putting it into practice—will be blessed in everything he does.
James 1:25 law listening obedience
Truly, you bless the righteous, O Lord;
you surround them with your goodwill as with a shield.
Psalm 5:13 protection righteousness
Honor your father and your mother so that your days may be lengthened in the land that the Lord your God, will give you.
Exodus 20:12 God family
Let your face shine upon your servant;
save me in your kindness.
Psalm 31:17 love salvation light
He reserves his wisdom for the upright
and is a shield to those who lead blameless lives.
Proverbs 2:7 righteousness protection blameless
Listen, my son, and take my words to heart,
and the years of your life will be multiplied.
Proverbs 4:10 Word of God obedience law
The righteous is remembered with blessings,
but the name of the wicked fades away.
Proverbs 10:7 sin righteousness
Blessed is the one whose offense is forgiven,
whose sin is erased.
Psalm 32:1 sin forgiveness
Out of the same mouth flow blessings and curses. This should not be so, my brethren.
James 3:10 sin speaking worship
O Lord, grant us salvation.
O Lord, grant us success.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
We bless you from the house of the Lord.
Psalm 118:25-26 easter overcoming salvation
What is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
Psalm 8:5 humility grace
Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them. While he was blessing them, he departed from them and was taken up to heaven.
Luke 24:50-51 Jesus heaven ascension
If you refuse to listen to me
and do not sincerely resolve
to give glory to my name,
says the Lord of hosts,
I will send a curse on you,
and I will turn your blessings into a curse.
Indeed, I have already done so
because you have not heeded my warning.
Malachi 2:2 obedience listening
Follow my statutes and keep my commandments and obey them. Then I will give you rain in its proper season and the yield of the land shall increase and the trees of the field shall bear their fruit.
Leviticus 26:3-4 obedience law harvest
God gave the midwives numerous families because they had feared God.
Exodus 1:21 awe
Thereupon the Lord restored the prosperity of Job after he had prayed for his friends, and he enriched him with twice as much as he had possessed before.
Job 42:10 prayer money
Blessed are you when people hate you and ostracize you, when they insult you and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.
Luke 6:22 persecution evil Jesus
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of the heavens and I will give them all these lands. All the nations on the earth will be blessed through your descendants, for Abraham listened to my voice and observed that which I ordered: my commandments, my ordinances and my laws.
Genesis 26:4-5 listening obedience law
Blessed is the man whom God reproves.
Therefore, do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.
Job 5:17 punishment suffering
Jesus answered, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel who will not receive in this age a hundred times more houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and lands—as well as persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.”
Mark 10:29-30 evangelism persecution eternal life

You shall obey his statutes and the commandments that I give you today, so that all may go well with you and your children after you, and that you may live long in the land that the Lord, your God, has given you for all time.