¹ Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.

² Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:

⁹ So then those who are of faith have a part in the blessing of Abraham who was full of faith.

²⁰ Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.

³⁵ The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.

⁵ Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.

¹¹ Now Abraham and Sarah were very old, and Sarah was past the time for giving birth.

² And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

⁸ For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

⁷ And they were without children, because Elisabeth had never given birth, and they were at that time very old.

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

² Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.

²² The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

² His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.

³ A store of wealth will be in his house, and his righteousness will be for ever.

¹ Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.

²⁵ Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body: