“Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I did set you apart – I appointed you a prophet to nations.”
John 3:27 - The Scriptures 2009 Yoḥanan answered and said, “No man is able to receive any matter unless it is given to him from the heaven. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition John answered, A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing, he can take unto himself nothing] except as it has been granted to him from heaven. [A man must be content to receive the gift which is given him from heaven; there is no other source.] American Standard Version (1901) John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven. Common English Bible John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it is given from heaven. Catholic Public Domain Version John responded and said: "A man is not able to receive anything, unless it has been given to him from heaven. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version John answered, and said: A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven. |
“Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I did set you apart – I appointed you a prophet to nations.”
And I have not run away from being a shepherd who follows You, nor have I longed for the desperately sick day. You Yourself have known, that which came out of my lips was before You.
“But יהוה took me from behind the flock, and יהוה said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Yisra’ĕl.’
And it shall be that the rod of the man whom I choose buds, and I shall rid Myself of the grumblings of the children of Yisra’ĕl, which they grumble against you.
The immersion of Yoḥanan, where did it come from? From heaven or from men? So they reasoned among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He shall say to us, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’
“And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability, and went from home.
as a man going abroad, having left his house and given authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch.
And many came to Him and said, “Yoḥanan indeed did no sign, yet all that Yoḥanan said about this Man was true.”
And He said, “Because of this I have said to you that no one is able to come to Me unless it has been given to him by My Father.”
through whom we have received favour and office of the emissary for belief-obedience among all the nations on behalf of His Name,
Now having different gifts, according to the favour which was given to us, let us use them accordingly: if prophecy, according to the proportion of belief;
Sha’ul, a called emissary of יהושע Messiah by the desire of Elohim, and brother Sosthenes,
But one and the same Spirit works all these, distributing to each one individually as He intends.
But by the favour of Elohim I am what I am, and His favour toward me was not in vain, but I laboured much more than they all, yet not I, but the favour of Elohim with me.
What then is Apollos, and what is Sha’ul, but servants through whom you believed, as the Master assigned to each?
For who makes you to differ? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
Sha’ul, an emissary – not from men, nor by a man, but by יהושע Messiah and Elohim the Father who raised Him from the dead –
Sha’ul, an emissary of יהושע Messiah by the desire of Elohim, to the set-apart ones who are in Ephesos, and true to Messiah יהושע:
for which I was appointed a proclaimer and an emissary – I am speaking the truth in Messiah and not lying – a teacher of the nations in belief and truth.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning.