Spiritual Blessings in 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,

as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,

and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.