John 3:27
John answered and said: A man can receive nothing unless it be given to him from heaven.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who gave you distinction, as a teacher? And what have you as a teacher, that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast, as if you had not received it?
James 1:17
every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor slightest trace of turning.
Matthew 21:25
The immersion of John, whence was it? from heaven, or from men? But they reasoned among themselves, and said, If we reply, From heaven, he will say to us, Why then did you not believe him?
Matthew 25:15
To one he gave five talents; to another, two; and to another, one; to each one, according to his own ability, and immediately left his country.
Mark 11:30-31
Was the immersion of John from heaven, or from men? answer me.
Mark 13:34
As a man, going into another country, leaves his house, and gives authority to his servants, and to each one his own work, and commands the door-keeper to watch;
Romans 1:5
through whom we have received grace and apostleship, in order to the obedience of faith among all nations, for the honor of his name,
Romans 12:6
Since, then, we have gifts which differ according to the grace that is given to us, whether we have the gift of prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
1 Corinthians 1:1
PAUL, a called apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Sostlienes my brother,
1 Corinthians 2:12-14
And we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God:
1 Corinthians 3:5
Who, then, is Paul? and who is Apollos? Ministers by whom you have believed, even as the Lord gave to each one.
1 Corinthians 12:11
But all these, the one and the same Spirit makes effectual, distributing to each, respectively, as he wills.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But, by the grace of God, I am what I am; and his grace, which was bestowed on me, has not been bestowed in vain: but I have labored more abundantly than they all; not I, how ever, but the grace of God which was with me.
Galatians 1:1
PAUL, an apostle, (not from men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,)
Ephesians 1:1
PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints that are in Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 3:7-8
of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God which was given to me, in proportion to the energy of his power:
1 Timothy 2:7
to give which testimony I have been appointed a preacher and an apostle; (I speak the truth, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faithfulness and in truth.
Hebrews 5:4-5
And no one takes this honor to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron also was called.
1 Peter 4:10-11
As each has received a gift, minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.