For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
1 Corinthians 4:7 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For who separates you from the others [as a faction leader]? [Who makes you superior and sets you apart from another, giving you the preeminence?] What have you that was not given to you? If then you received it [from someone], why do you boast as if you had not received [but had gained it by your own efforts]? American Standard Version (1901) For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? Common English Bible Who says that you are better than anyone else? What do you have that you didn’t receive? And if you received it, then why are you bragging as if you didn’t receive it? Catholic Public Domain Version For what distinguishes you from another? And what do you have that you have not received? But if you have received it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not received? And if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? |
For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: *Behold, I am against you, Par`oh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.'
You king, the El `Elyon gave Nevukhadnetzar 1 your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:
but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'
Yochanan answered, *A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
through whom we received grace and the office of emissary, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.
Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Who then is Apollos, and who is Sha'ul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
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.
As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.