John 3:27
John answered, and said, "A man can receive nothing at all except it be given him from heaven.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who preferreth thee? What hast thou, that thou hast not received? If thou have received it: why boastest thou as though thou hadst not received it?
James 1:17
Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above and cometh down from the father of light, with whom is no variableness, neither is he changed unto darkness.
Matthew 21:25
The baptism of John: whence was it? From heaven, or of men?" Then they reasoned among themselves, saying, "If we shall say from heaven; he will say unto us, 'Why did ye not then believe him?'
Numbers 16:9-11
Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the multitude of Israel to bring you to him, to do the service of the dwelling place of the LORD, and to stand before the people to minister unto them?
Numbers 17:5
And his rod whom I chose, shall blossom: So I will make cease from me the grudgings of the children of Israel which they grudge against you."
1 Chronicles 28:4-5
Moreover, the LORD God of Israel chose me of all the house of my father, to be king over Israel forever, for he chose Judah to be a captain: and in the house of Judah the house of my father, and of the sons of my father he had a lust to me, to make me king over all Israel.
Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I fashioned thee in thy mother's womb, I did know thee: And before thou wast born, I sanctified thee and ordained thee, to be a Prophet unto the people."
Jeremiah 17:16
And I enforced not to be a shepherd that should not follow thee: and the day of destruction have I not desired, thou knowest. And that proceeded out of my mouth was right in thy sight.
Amos 7:15
the LORD took me, and said unto me, 'Go thy way, and prophesy unto my people of Israel.'
Matthew 25:15
And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one: to every man after his ability, and straightway departed.
Mark 11:30-31
The baptism of John: was it from heaven, or of men? Answer me."
Mark 13:34
As a man which is gone into a strange country and hath left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Romans 1:5
by whom we have received grace and apostleship, to bring all manner heathen people unto obedience of the faith, that is in his name:
Romans 12:6
Seeing that we have divers gifts according to the grace that is given unto us: if any man have the gift of prophecy, let him have it that it be agreeing unto the faith;
1 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, by vocation an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and brother Sosthenes.
1 Corinthians 2:12-14
And we have not received the spirit of the world: but the spirit which cometh of God, for to know the things that are given to us of God,
1 Corinthians 3:5
What is Paul? What thing is Apollos? Only ministers are they, by whom ye believed: even as the Lord gave every man grace.
1 Corinthians 12:11
and these all worketh even the self same spirit, dividing to every man several gifts even as he will.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am that I am. And his grace which is in me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which is with me.
Galatians 1:1
Paul an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and by God the father which raised him from death,
Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God. To the saints which are at Ephesus, and to them which believe on Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 3:7-8
whereof I am made a minister, by the gift of the grace of God given unto me, through the working of his power.
1 Timothy 2:7
whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle - I tell the truth in Christ and lie not - being the teacher of the gentiles in faith and verity.
Hebrews 5:4-5
And no man taketh honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
1 Peter 4:10-11
As every man hath received the gift, minister the same one to another as good ministers of the manifold grace of God.