When I think of what has happened to me, I am stunned, and I tremble and shake.

The storm makes my heart beat wildly.

I am gripped by fear and trembling; I am overcome with horror.

May Almighty God bless your marriage and give you many children, so that you will become the father of many nations!

May he bless you and your descendants as he blessed Abraham, and may you take possession of this land, in which you have lived and which God gave to Abraham!"

The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come in order that you might have life---life in all its fullness.

I give them eternal life, and they shall never die. No one can snatch them away from me.

What my Father has given me is greater than everything, and no one can snatch them away from the Father's care.

Law was introduced in order to increase wrongdoing; but where sin increased, God's grace increased much more.

So then, just as sin ruled by means of death, so also God's grace rules by means of righteousness, leading us to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For God does not change his mind about whom he chooses and blesses.

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For in our union with Christ he has blessed us by giving us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world.

It was faith that made Isaac promise blessings for the future to Jacob and Esau.