John 3:27
John answered and said, "A man can receive not one [thing] unless it is granted to him from heaven!
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who concedes you [superiority]? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if indeed you received [it], why do you boast as [if you] did not receive [it]?
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change.
Matthew 21:25
From where was the baptism of John--from heaven or from men?" And they began to discuss [this] among themselves, saying, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'
Numbers 16:9-11
[Is it] too little for you that the God of Israel set you apart from the community of Israel {to allow you to approach him} to do the work of the tabernacle of Yahweh, to stand {before} the community to serve them?
Numbers 17:5
And it will happen, the man whom I will choose, his staff will blossom, and so I will rid from upon myself the grumblings of the {Israelites}, who [are] grumbling against you."
1 Chronicles 28:4-5
But Yahweh the God of Israel chose me from all of the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to reign over all Israel.
Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you came out from [the] womb I consecrated you; I appointed you [as] a prophet to the nations."
Jeremiah 17:16
But I, I have not run away from being a shepherd {who follows you}, and I have not desired the disastrous day. You, you know the pronouncement of my lips, it was before your face.
Amos 7:15
And Yahweh took me from [following] behind the sheep and goats and Yahweh said to me, "Go, prophesy to my people Israel!
Matthew 25:15
And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each one according to his own ability, and he went on a journey immediately.
Mark 11:30-31
The baptism of John--was [it] from heaven or from men? Answer me!"
Mark 13:34
It is like a man away on a journey, who left his house and gave his slaves authority--to each one his work--and to the doorkeeper he gave orders that he should be on the alert.
Romans 1:5
through whom we have received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name,
Romans 12:6
but having different gifts according to the grace given to us: if [it is] prophecy, according to the proportion of [his] faith;
1 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, called [to be] an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,
1 Corinthians 2:12-14
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, in order that we may know the things freely given to us by God,
1 Corinthians 3:5
Therefore, what is Apollos and what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave.
1 Corinthians 12:11
But in all these [things] one and the same Spirit is at work, distributing to each one individually just as he wishes.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me.
Galatians 1:1
Paul, an apostle not from men nor by men but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead,
Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and faithful in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 3:7-8
of which I became a servant, according to the gift of God's grace given to me, according to the working of his power.
1 Timothy 2:7
for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle--I am speaking the truth, [I am] not lying--a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
Hebrews 5:4-5
And someone does not take for himself the honor, but is called by God, just as Aaron also [was].
1 Peter 4:10-11
Just as each one has received a gift, [use] it for serving one another, as good stewards of the varied grace of God.