Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
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A man
Matthew 25:15
"To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another, one??o each according to his individual ability??nd then set out on his travels.
Mark 13:34
Take heed! Awake! for you never know the time. As a man gone abroad and leaving his house gives authority to his slaves, to each his task; and orders the porter to keep watch;
Romans 1:5
It is through him, even Jesus Christ our Lord, that I received grace and apostleship to promote obedience to the faith among all the Gentiles, for his name's sake;
Romans 12:6
But we have gifts differing according to the grace which was given to us. He that has the gift of prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his faith.
1 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Sosthenes, his brother.
1 Corinthians 2:12
But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God.
1 Corinthians 3:5
What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Just ministers through whom you have believed, and each doing the work that the Lord gave him.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?
1 Corinthians 12:11
But the one and the same Spirit gives power to all, distributing his gifts to each as he wills.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and that grace of his, bestowed upon me, did not prove ineffectual. I labored more abundantly than all the rest, yet not I, but by the grace of God that is with me.
Galatians 1:1
Paul, an apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by 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 who are in Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ Jesus,
Ephesians 3:7
It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.
1 Timothy 2:7
It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above, and is ever coming down to us from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of eclipse.
1 Peter 4:10
Whatever the gifts which each has received, use them for one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
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Hebrews 5:4
Again no one takes this honorable office for himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.
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Matthew 21:25
John's baptism, whence was it, from heaven or from man?" So they began debating about it among themselves.
Mark 11:30
The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me!"
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Hebrews 5:4
Again no one takes this honorable office for himself, but he is called by God, just as Aaron was.