Ephesians 1:3

With the God of our Lord Jesus Christ cp. Ephesians 1:17; Hebrews 1:9; John 20:17; Revelation 1:6; Revelation 3:2; Revelation 3:12. With all spiritual blessings] RV 'with every spiritual blessing.' Something much higher than the material, temporal blessings promised in the OT. In heavenly places] RV 'in the heavenly places.' The phrase is found in four other places in Ephesians (Ephesians 1:20; Ephesians 2:6; Ephesians 3:10; Ephesians 6:12), and nowhere else. There is no substantive in the Gk., and we may render, 'among the heavenly things'; the unseen world, in which lie the spiritual forces which oppose us and which help us. Here are the true realities.