John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no cha
For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet no
As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another
We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely
But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’
To one he gave five talents, to another two talents, and to another one talent—each according to his own ability. And he
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to
I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power.
The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid Myself of the constant grumbling of the Israelites a
No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was.
But I have not run away from being Your shepherd; I have not desired the day of despair. You know that the utterance of
What was the source of John’s baptism? Was it from heaven or from men?” They deliberated among themselves and said, “If
John’s baptism—was it from heaven or from men? Answer Me!”
We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his
For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling
It is like a man going on a journey who left his house, put each servant in charge of his own task, and instructed the d
Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Juda
Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel and brought you near t
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus:
All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines.
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each hi
Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obe
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,
Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead—