'Gift' in the Bible
Therefore if you present your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
leave your gift there before the altar and first go be reconciled to your brother, and then come [and] present your gift.
And Jesus said to him, "See that you tell no one, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them."
But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or his mother, "Whatever {benefit you would have received} from me [is] a gift [to God],"
And, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing! But whoever swears by the gift [that is] on it is bound [by his oath].'
Blind [people]! For which [is] greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy
But you say, 'If a man says to his father or to his mother, "Whatever {benefit you would have received} from me [is] corban" (that is, a gift [to God]),
Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, 'Give me [water] to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
And Peter [said] to them, "Repent and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
But Peter said to him, "May your silver {be destroyed along with you}, because you thought {you could acquire} the gift of God by means of money!
And those believers from the circumcision who had accompanied Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles,
Therefore if God gave them the same gift as also to us [when we] believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I [to be] able to hinder God?"
For I desire to see you, in order that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to strengthen you,
being justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,
{But the gift is not like the trespass}, for if by the trespass of the one, the many died, by much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, multiply to the many.
And the gift [is] not as through the one who sinned, for on the one hand, judgment from the one [sin] [led] to condemnation, but the gift, from many trespasses, [led] to justification.
For if by the trespass of the one [man], death reigned through the one [man], much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
For the compensation due sin [is] death, but the gift of God [is] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
so that you do not lack in any spiritual gift [as you] eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
I wish all people could be like myself, but each one has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that way.
And if I have [the gift of] prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that [I can] remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
And whenever I arrive, whomever you approve by letters, I will send these to take your gift to Jerusalem.
[while] you also join in helping {on our behalf} by prayer, so that thanks may be given {on our behalf} by many persons for this gracious gift [given] to us through [the help] of many.
And not only [this], but he was also chosen by the churches [as] our traveling companion together with this gift that is being administered by us to the glory of the Lord himself and [to show] our readiness [to help].
[We are] trying to avoid this, lest anyone should find fault with us in this abundant gift that is being administered by us.
Therefore I considered [it] necessary to urge the brothers that they should go on ahead to you and make arrangements in advance for your generous gift that was promised previously, so this would be prepared as a generous gift and not as grudgingly granted.
For by grace you are saved through faith, and this [is] not from yourselves, [it is] the gift of God;
of which I became a servant, according to the gift of God's grace given to me, according to the working of his power.
Now to each one of us was given this grace, according to the measure of Christ's gift.
Not that I seek the gift, but I seek for the profit that increases to your account.
Do not neglect the gift [that is] in you, that was granted to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.
for which reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands.
For [it is] impossible [concerning] those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and become sharers of the Holy Spirit,
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.
Just as each one has received a gift, [use] it for serving one another, as good stewards of the varied grace of God.