Psalms 122:6

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”

Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.” They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.

But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”

that they may offer sacrifices of pleasant aroma to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

Behold, a people rises up as a lioness. As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”

He couched, he lay down as a lion, as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Everyone who blesses you is blessed. Everyone who curses you is cursed.”

Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,

For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”

He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread.

May Yahweh bless you from Zion, even he who made heaven and earth.

Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah few in number. All the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.

You who have escaped the sword, go! Don’t stand still! Remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.”

He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.

for kings and all who are in high places, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandments.

Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.

For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;

Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you will have peace.”

He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.

Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”

Redeem Israel, God, out of all his troubles.

May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;