The best Bible verses for blessing (MSG) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for blessing (MSG), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
""You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat."Matthew 5:6
""You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat."Matthew 5:6
""You're blessed when you care. At the moment of being 'carefull,' you find yourselves cared for."Matthew 5:7
""You're blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world."Matthew 5:8
""You're blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That's when you discover who you really are, and your place in God's family."Matthew 5:9
""You're blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God's kingdom."Matthew 5:10
""Not only that—count yourselves blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies about you to discredit me. What it means is that the truth is too close for comfort and they are uncomfortable."Matthew 5:11
"God's curse blights the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous."Proverbs 3:33
"I did all this because of the Message. I didn't just want to talk about it; I wanted to be in on it!"1 Corinthians 9:23
"That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless—that's your job, to bless. You'll be a blessing and also get a blessing."1 Peter 3:9
"That's when God set apart the tribe of Levi to carry God's Covenant Chest, to be on duty in the Presence of God, to serve him, and to bless in his name, as they continue to do today."Deuteronomy 10:8
"The Blessing: if you listen obediently to the commandments of God, your God, which I command you today."Deuteronomy 11:27
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for blessing (MSG) are Matthew 5:6, Matthew 5:7, Matthew 5:8. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to blessing (MSG) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for blessing (MSG), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.