⁴ May he give ^(A)the blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of ^(B)the land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!”

¹⁴ so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might ^(A)come to the Gentiles, so that ^(B)we might receive ^(C)the promised Spirit^[a] through faith.

⁷ Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, ^(A)“To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Spiritual Blessings in Christ

^3 (A)Blessed be ^(B)the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing ^(C)in the heavenly places,

¹⁷ I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring ^(A)as the stars of heaven and ^(B)as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess ^(C)the gate of his^[a] enemies, ¹⁸ and ^(D)in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, ^(E)because you have obeyed my voice.”

⁹ By faith he went to live in ^(A)the land of promise, as in a foreign land, ^(B)living in tents ^(C)with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to ^(D)the city that has ^(E)foundations, ^(F)whose designer and builder is God. ¹¹ By faith ^(G)Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered ^(H)him faithful who had promised. ¹² Therefore from one man, and ^(I)him as good as dead, were born descendants ^(J)as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

¹³ These all died in faith, ^(K)not having received the things promised, but ^(L)having seen them and greeted them from afar, and ^(M)having acknowledged that they were ^(N)strangers and exiles on the earth.

⁸ And the Scripture, foreseeing that ^(A)God would justify^[a] the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, ^(B)“In you shall all the nations be blessed.”