Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us
from God the Father
and from Jesus + Christ, the Father’s Son,
in truth and love.
Source: 2 John 3 (Evangelical Heritage Version)
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A New Testament Blessing (1 Peter)
The God of all grace,
who called you into his eternal glory in Christ Jesus,
will himself restore, establish, strengthen, and support you.
To + him be the glory and power forever and ever.
Amen.
Source: 1 Peter 5:10-11 (Evangelical Heritage Version)
A New Testament Blessing (2 Thessalonians)
May the Lord of peace himself
give you peace at all times and in every way.
The Lord be with you all.
Source: 2 Thessalonians 3:16 (Evangelical Heritage Version)
A New Testament Blessing (2 Thessalonians)
May our Lord Jesus + Christ himself
and God our Father,
who loved us and in his grace
gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,
encourage your hearts
and establish you in every good work and word.
Source: 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 (Evangelical Heritage Version)
A New Testament Blessing (1 Thessalonians)
May the God of peace himself
sanctify you completely,
and may your whole spirit, soul, and body
be kept blameless
at the coming of our Lord Jesus + Christ.
The one who calls you is faithful,
and he will do it.
Source: 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (Evangelical Heritage Version)
A New Testament Blessing (Ephesians)
May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith.
Then, being rooted and grounded in love,
I pray that you would be able to comprehend, along with all the saints,
how wide and long and high and deep his love is,
and that you would be able to know
the love of + Christ that surpasses knowledge,
so that you may be filled to all the fullness of God.
Source: adapted from Ephesians 3:17-19 (Evangelical Heritage Version)
A Blessing from the Psalms
May God be gracious to us and bless us.
May his face shine on us–
so that his way may be known on earth,
his salvation among all nations.
God, our God, will + bless us,
and all the ends of the earth will fear him.
Source: From Psalm 67 (Evangelical Heritage Version)
This blessing was sung to the chant tune of the Magnificat in German Lutheran liturgy in the 1600s and 1700s. (Text is from the English Standard Version)
With German text from Schatz des liturgischen Chor- und Gemeindegesangs
The Aaronic Benediction
The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and + give you peace.
Source: Numbers 6:24-25 (ESV)
A New Testament Blessing (1 Thessalonians)
May God our Father himself
and our Lord Jesus
increase your love
and make it overflow for each other
and for all people,
so that he may establish your hearts
as blameless in holiness
before our God and Father,
when our Lord + Jesus comes
with all his saints.
Source: Shortened from 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13 (Evangelical Heritage Version)
Unshortened, it reads:
May God our Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you. And may the Lord increase your love and make it overflow for each other and for all people, just as ours does for you, so that he may establish your hearts as blameless in holiness before our God and Father, when our Lord Jesus comes with all his saints.
Source: 1 Thessalonians 3:11-13 (Evangelical Heritage Version)
A New Testament Blessing (Romans)
Now may the God of hope
fill you with complete joy and peace
as you continue to believe,
so that you overflow with hope
by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Source: Romans 15:13 (Evangelical Heritage Version)
A Collection of Prayers 