The best Bible verses for blessing (NLT) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for blessing (NLT), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Then the Levitical priests must step forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister before him and to pronounce blessings in the LORD’s name. They are to decide all legal and criminal cases."Deuteronomy 21:5
"Then the Levitical priests must step forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister before him and to pronounce blessings in the LORD’s name. They are to decide all legal and criminal cases."Deuteronomy 21:5
"But the LORD your God refused to listen to Balaam. He turned the intended curse into a blessing because the LORD your God loves you."Deuteronomy 23:5
"“The LORD will guarantee a blessing on everything you do and will fill your storehouses with grain. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you."Deuteronomy 28:8
"“In the future, when you experience all these blessings and curses I have listed for you, and when you are living among the nations to which the LORD your God has exiled you, take to heart all these instructions."Deuteronomy 30:1
"“Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!"Deuteronomy 30:19
"This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave to the people of Israel before his death:"Deuteronomy 33:1
"Moses said this about the tribe of Naphtali: “O Naphtali, you are rich in favor and full of the LORD’s blessings; may you possess the west and the south.”"Deuteronomy 33:23
"All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ."Ephesians 1:3
"Through Christ Jesus, God has blessed the Gentiles with the same blessing he promised to Abraham, so that we who are believers might receive the promised Holy Spirit through faith."Galatians 3:14
"When the ground soaks up the falling rain and bears a good crop for the farmer, it has God’s blessing."Hebrews 6:7
"You know that afterward, when he wanted his father’s blessing, he was rejected. It was too late for repentance, even though he begged with bitter tears."Hebrews 12:17
"In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth."Isaiah 19:24
"For I will pour out water to quench your thirst and to irrigate your parched fields. And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children."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 (NLT) are Deuteronomy 21:5, Deuteronomy 23:5, Deuteronomy 28:2. 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 (NLT) 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 (NLT), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.