John 3:27

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John replied,“No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 4:7 : 7 For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?
  • Jas 1:17 : 17 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.
  • Matt 21:25 : 25 Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from people?” They discussed this among themselves, saying,“If we say,‘From heaven,’ he will say,‘Then why did you not believe him?’
  • Matt 25:15 : 15 To one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.
  • Mark 11:30-31 : 30 John’s baptism– was it from heaven or from people? Answer me.” 31 They discussed with one another, saying,“If we say,‘From heaven,’ he will say,‘Then why did you not believe him?’
  • Mark 13:34 : 34 It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves in charge, assigning to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert.
  • Num 16:9-9 : 9 Does it seem too small a thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel to bring you near to himself, to perform the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the community to minister to them? 10 He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek the priesthood also? 11 Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the LORD! And Aaron– what is he that you murmur against him?”
  • Num 17:5 : 5 And the staff of the man whom I choose will blossom; so I will rid myself of the complaints of the Israelites, which they murmur against you.”
  • 1 Chr 28:4-5 : 4 The LORD God of Israel chose me out of my father’s entire family to become king over Israel and have a permanent dynasty. Indeed, he chose Judah as leader, and my father’s family within Judah, and then he picked me out from among my father’s sons and made me king over all Israel. 5 From all the many sons the LORD has given me, he chose Solomon my son to rule on his behalf over Israel.
  • Jer 1:5 : 5 “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb I chose you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”
  • Jer 17:16 : 16 But I have not pestered you to bring disaster. I have not desired the time of irreparable devastation. You know that. You are fully aware of every word that I have spoken.
  • Amos 7:15 : 15 Then the LORD took me from tending flocks and gave me this commission,‘Go! Prophesy to my people Israel!’
  • 1 Cor 12:11 : 11 It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.
  • 1 Cor 15:10 : 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
  • Gal 1:1 : 1 ¶ Salutation From Paul, an apostle(not from men, nor by human agency, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead)
  • Eph 1:1 : 1 ¶ Salutation From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints[in Ephesus], the faithful in Christ Jesus.
  • Eph 3:7-8 : 7 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. 8 To me– less than the least of all the saints– this grace was given, to proclaim to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ
  • 1 Tim 2:7 : 7 For this I was appointed a preacher and apostle– I am telling the truth; I am not lying– and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
  • Heb 5:4-5 : 4 And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was. 5 So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God, who said to him,“You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,”
  • 1 Pet 4:10-11 : 10 Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God. 11 Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
  • Rom 12:6 : 6 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.
  • 1 Cor 1:1 : 1 ¶ Salutation From Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes, our brother,
  • 1 Cor 2:12-14 : 12 Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God. 13 And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. 14 The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 1 Cor 3:5 : 5 What is Apollos, really? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you came to believe, and each of us in the ministry the Lord gave us.
  • Rom 1:5 : 5 Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

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    2came to Jesus at night and said to him,“Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him.”

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    4Nicodemus said to him,“How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”

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