There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them.

Actually I would prefer that all of you were as I am; but each one has a special gift from God, one person this gift, another one that gift.

Each of you should go on living according to the Lord's gift to you, and as you were when God called you. This is the rule I teach in all the churches.

John answered, "No one can have anything unless God gives it.

So we are to use our different gifts in accordance with the grace that God has given us. If our gift is to speak God's message, we should do it according to the faith that we have;

As for us, however, our boasting will not go beyond certain limits; it will stay within the limits of the work which God has set for us, and this includes our work among you.

Each one of us has received a special gift in proportion to what Christ has given.

There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service.

He looks on the people of the earth as nothing; angels in heaven and people on earth are under his control. No one can oppose his will or question what he does.

Yes, Father, this was how you were pleased to have it happen.

Don't I have the right to do as I wish with my own money? Or are you jealous because I am generous?' "

The wind blows wherever it wishes; you hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. It is like that with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, in the same way the Son gives life to those he wants to.

So then, God has mercy on anyone he wishes, and he makes stubborn anyone he wishes.

All things are done according to God's plan and decision; and God chose us to be his own people in union with Christ because of his own purpose, based on what he had decided from the very beginning.

At the same time God added his witness to theirs by performing all kinds of miracles and wonders and by distributing the gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his will.

By his own will he brought us into being through the word of truth, so that we should have first place among all his creatures.