Quotes About Blessing

Jesus told them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.”

So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many, the net was not torn.

And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ëThrough your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.í

When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”

They presented these seven to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.

Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.

So there was great joy in that city.

Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

“Give me this power as well,” he said, “so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

He and all his household were devout and God-fearing. He gave generously to the people and prayed to God regularly.

Cornelius stared at him in fear and asked, “What is it, Lord?” The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God.

and said, ëCornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your gifts to the poor have been remembered before God.

And after they had fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.

In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ëIt is more blessed to give than to receive.í”

When Paul had said this, he knelt down with all of them and prayed.

But when our time there had ended, we set out on our journey. All the disciples, with their wives and children, accompanied us out of the city and knelt down on the beach to pray with us.

After he had said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.

The islanders honored us in many ways and supplied our needs when we were ready to sail.

“Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abrahamís faith was credited to him as righteousness.

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!

If the first part of the dough is holy, so is the whole batch; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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