'Gift' in the Bible
So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.
so that your gift may be in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
And, 'Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing. But if anyone swears by the gift on it he is bound by the oath.'
You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, 'Whatever help you would have received from me is corban' (that is, a gift for God),
For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.
Jesus answered her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, 'Give me some water to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
Peter said to them, "Repent, and each one of you be baptized 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 perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God's gift with money!
The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were greatly 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 he also gave us after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to hinder God?"
For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,
But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how 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 like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification.
For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how 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 payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
And we have different gifts according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.
so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.
Otherwise, if you are praising God with your spirit, how can someone without the gift say "Amen" to your thanksgiving, since he does not know what you are saying?
Then, when I arrive, I will send those whom you approve with letters of explanation to carry your gift to Jerusalem.
as you also join in helping us by prayer, so that many people may give thanks to God on our behalf for the gracious gift given to us through the help of many.
For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.
In addition, this brother has also been chosen by the churches as our traveling companion as we administer this generous gift to the glory of the Lord himself and to show our readiness to help.
We did this as a precaution so that no one should blame us in regard to this generous gift we are administering.
Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do.
For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power.
But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
I do not say this because I am seeking a gift. Rather, I seek the credit that abounds to your account.
Do not neglect the spiritual gift you have, given to you and confirmed by prophetic words when the elders laid hands on you.
Because of this I remind you to rekindle God's gift that you possess through the laying on of my hands.
For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit,
All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.
Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God.