⁷ For who sees anything different in you? ^(A)What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

²⁷ John answered, ^(A)“A person cannot receive even one thing ^(B)unless it is given him ^(C)from heaven.

^10 (A)As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, ^(B)as good stewards of God's varied grace:

^17 (A)Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from ^(B)the Father of lights, ^(C)with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.^[a]

^6 (A)Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if ^(B)prophecy, ^(C)in proportion to our faith;

^11 (A)Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all. ^12 (B)Both riches and honor come from you, and you rule over all. ^(C)In your hand are power and might, and in your hand it is to make great and to give strength to all. ¹³ And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

¹⁴ “But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. ^15 (D)For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are ^(E)like a shadow, and there is no abiding.^{[a] 16} O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.

¹⁶ For from ^(A)his fullness we have all received, ^(B)grace upon grace.^[a]

¹³ Calling ^(A)ten of his servants,^[a] he gave them ten minas,^[b] and said to them, ‘Engage in business ^(B)until I come.’