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What does the Bible say about hebrew and greek words for gift?

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The Bible teaches that every true gift ultimately comes from God, whether it is His saving grace, spiritual ability for service, or ordinary provision and kindness. James 1:17 calls every good and perfect gift a gift from the Father, while Ephesians 2:8 declares salvation to be God’s gift, received by grace through faith rather than earned by works. Romans 5:15-17 and 5:16 especially praise Christ’s abundant gift of righteousness and life for undeserving sinners. The Greek word charis often emphasizes grace, and charisma refers to a grace-gift for ministry, as in Romans 12:6 and 1 Peter 4:10. John 4:10 presents Jesus Himself as God’s gift of living water.

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  • Proverbs 18:16 4 votes

    A man's gift makes room for him, And brings him before great men.

  • Ephesians 2:8 3 votes

    for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

  • John 4:10 3 votes

    Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

  • Romans 5:15 2 votes

    But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

  • Romans 12:6 2 votes

    Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

  • Romans 5:17 2 votes

    For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

  • James 1:17 2 votes

    Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

  • 1 Peter 4:10 2 votes

    According as each has received a gift, be ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the grace of God in its various forms.

  • Romans 5:16 2 votes

    The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

  • Ephesians 4:7 2 votes

    But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

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