The best Bible verses for blessing (NIV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for blessing (NIV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you."Deuteronomy 23:5
"However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you."Deuteronomy 23:5
"All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:"Deuteronomy 28:2
"The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you."Deuteronomy 28:8
"When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations,"Deuteronomy 30:1
"This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live"Deuteronomy 30:19
"This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death."Deuteronomy 33:1
"About Naphtali he said: “Naphtali is abounding with the favor of the Lord and is full of his blessing; he will inherit southward to the lake.”"Deuteronomy 33:23
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ."Ephesians 1:3
"He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit."Galatians 3:14
"Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God."Hebrews 6:7
"Afterward, as you know, when he wanted to inherit this blessing, he was rejected. He could bring about no change of mind, though he sought the blessing with tears."Hebrews 12:17
"In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth."Isaiah 19:24
"For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants."Isaiah 44:3
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 (NIV) are Deuteronomy 23:5, Deuteronomy 28:2, Deuteronomy 28:8. 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 (NIV) 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 (NIV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.