But one and the same Ruach activates all these things, distributing to each person individually as He wills.
Yes, Father, for this way was pleasing to You.
Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or is your eye evil because I am good?’
John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.
The wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever He wants.
We have gifts that differ according to the grace that was given to us—if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
So then He has mercy on whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.
But now God has placed the parts—each one of them—in the body just as He desired.
Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Ruach.
There are various kinds of working, but the same God who works all things in all people.
Only, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each, let him walk in this way. I give this rule in all of Messiah’s communities.
Yet I wish that all men were like me. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this way and another that.
But we will not boast beyond limits, but within the limits of the area that God has assigned to us—to reach even as far as you.
In Him we also were chosen, predestined according to His plan. He keeps working out all things according to the purpose of His will—
But to each one of us grace was given in keeping with the measure of Messiah’s gift.
At the same time, God was testifying by signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Ruach ha-Kodesh, according to His will.
By His will, He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all He created.