All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
But we will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you.
But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.
and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.
John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven.
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
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