Jesus *said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’”

so that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.

and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Who

And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so

you shall be a blessing;

In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Now Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm that it may not pain me!” And God granted him what he requested.

May his name endure forever;
May his name increase

as long as the sun shines;

And let men bless themselves by him;

Let all nations call him blessed.

May the Lord

bless you from Zion,

He who made heaven and earth.

Then their offspring will be known among the nations,
And their descendants in the midst of the peoples.
All who see them will recognize them
Because they are the offspring whom the Lord has blessed.

So then those who are of faith are blessed with Abraham, the believer.

Heavenly

which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,

and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.

For our struggle is not against

flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

so that you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Places, or, things

For our struggle is not against

flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

In christ

with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him

In that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.

that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me.

so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

General references

So Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord who delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, and who delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,