whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.”
For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will sanctify my name; they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
and I will sow her for myself in the land. And I will have mercy on No Mercy, and I will say to Not My People, ‘You are my people’; and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”
even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? As indeed he says in Hosea, “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth!
But the Lord's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.
Their offspring shall be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the peoples; all who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.
Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
“So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will bless them.”
The Lord bless you and keep you;
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their descendants with them.
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and the one who formed him: “Ask me of things to come; will you command me concerning my children and the work of my hands?
Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us. God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!
Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,
When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to look for omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.
and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
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