John 3:27
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27 To this John replied, “A person can receive only what is given them from heaven.
James 1:17
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17 Every good and perfect gift is from above,(A) coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,(B) who does not change(C) like shifting shadows.
1 Corinthians 4:7
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7 For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive?(A) And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
1 Corinthians 15:10
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10 But by the grace(A) of God I am what I am, and his grace to me(B) was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them(C)—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.(D)
1 Peter 4:10-11
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10 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others,(A) as faithful(B) stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God.(C) If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides,(D) so that in all things God may be praised(E) through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.(F)
1 Corinthians 2:12-14
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12 What we have received is not the spirit(A) of the world,(B) but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom(C) but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.[a] 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God(D) but considers them foolishness,(E) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 2:13 Or Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual
Amos 7:15
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15 But the Lord took me from tending the flock(A) and said to me, ‘Go,(B) prophesy(C) to my people Israel.’(D)
Hebrews 5:4-5
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4 And no one takes this honor on himself, but he receives it when called by God, just as Aaron was.(A)
5 In the same way, Christ did not take on himself the glory(B) of becoming a high priest.(C) But God said(D) to him,
Footnotes
- Hebrews 5:5 Psalm 2:7
Matthew 25:15
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15 To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag,[a] each according to his ability.(A) Then he went on his journey.
Footnotes
- Matthew 25:15 Greek five talents … two talents … one talent; also throughout this parable; a talent was worth about 20 years of a day laborer’s wage.
Jeremiah 17:16
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16 I have not run away from being your shepherd;
you know I have not desired the day of despair.
What passes my lips(A) is open before you.
Jeremiah 1:5
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Numbers 17:5
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5 The staff belonging to the man I choose(A) will sprout,(B) and I will rid myself of this constant grumbling(C) against you by the Israelites.”
1 Timothy 2:7
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7 And for this purpose I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am telling the truth, I am not lying(A)—and a true and faithful teacher(B) of the Gentiles.(C)
Ephesians 3:7-8
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Romans 12:6
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6 We have different gifts,(A) according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying,(B) then prophesy in accordance with your[a] faith;(C)
Footnotes
- Romans 12:6 Or the
Mark 11:30-31
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30 John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or of human origin? Tell me!”
31 They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’
Matthew 21:25
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25 John’s baptism—where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or of human origin?”
They discussed it among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask, ‘Then why didn’t you believe him?’
Mark 13:34
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34 It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants(A) in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.
1 Chronicles 28:4-5
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4 “Yet the Lord, the God of Israel, chose me(A) from my whole family(B) to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah(C) as leader, and from the tribe of Judah he chose my family, and from my father’s sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel.(D) 5 Of all my sons—and the Lord has given me many(E)—he has chosen my son Solomon(F) to sit on the throne(G) of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
Numbers 16:9-11
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9 Isn’t it enough(A) for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the Israelite community and brought you near himself to do the work at the Lord’s tabernacle and to stand before the community and minister to them?(B) 10 He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near himself, but now you are trying to get the priesthood too.(C) 11 It is against the Lord that you and all your followers have banded together. Who is Aaron that you should grumble(D) against him?(E)”