Good Gifts

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

• Miracles

But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

• Steward

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

• Captivity
• Prophecy

Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men. He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him. The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

• Glory
• Shield

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

• Church

Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;