There are many Bible verses about gifts from God that are given to Christians.
For example, the Apostle Paul reminds us that we all receive different gifts from God according to the grace that was given to us. (Romans 12:6). And, to each one is given the manifestation of the spiritual gifts for the common good (1 Corinthians 12:7).
Below is a list of the most important scriptures on gifts from God in the Bible for you to read, pray about, and apply to your life as a Christian (ordered by Old Testament to New Testament passages). The first part includes the best Bible quotes about gifts (both explicitly and implicitly stated) and the second part contains an entire collection of scripture passages that mention the word gift and the power of spiritual blessings from the Lord.
Bible Verses About Gifts From God
Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Read Genesis 12
Proverbs 2:6
For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Read Proverbs 2
Psalms 37:4
Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Read Psalms 37
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Read Ecclesiastes 2
Ecclesiastes 5:19
Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour—this is the gift of God.
Read Ecclesiastes 5
Matthew 7:7-8
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.”
Read Matthew 7
Matthew 7:11
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Read Matthew 7
John 3:27
John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.”
Read John 3
John 4:10
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.”
Read John 4
Acts 2:38
Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptised, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Read Acts 2
Romans 5:17
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.
Read Romans 5
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Read Romans 6
Romans 8:32
He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
Read Romans 8
Romans 11:29
For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Read Romans 11
Romans 12:4-6
For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don’t have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another, having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us.
Read Romans 12
1 Corinthians 2:12
But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.
Read 1 Corinthians 2
1 Corinthians 7:7
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.
Read 1 Corinthians 7
1 Corinthians 12:4
Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
Read 1 Corinthians 12
1 Corinthians 12:7-11
But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all. For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, and to another workings of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of languages, and to another the interpretation of languages. But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
Read 1 Corinthians 12
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.
Read Ephesians 2
Ephesians 4:11-12
He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ.
Read Ephesians 4
James 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Read James 1
James 1:17
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.
Read James 1
1 Peter 4:10
As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.
Read 1 Peter 4
More Scriptures On Gifts From God
Genesis 21:1
The LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did to Sarah as he had spoken.
Read Genesis 21
Exodus 31:2-3
“Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship.”
Read Exodus 31
Exodus 31:6
“Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:”
Read Exodus 31
Exodus 36:1
“Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding to know how to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD has commanded.”
Read Exodus 36
Numbers 18:7
“You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil. You shall serve. I give you the service of the priesthood as a gift. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”
Read Numbers 18
Numbers 18:11
“This is yours, too: the wave offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the children of Israel. I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with you, as a portion forever. Everyone who is clean in your house shall eat of it.”
Read Numbers 18
Job 1:9-10
Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.”
Read Job 1
Psalms 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
Read Psalms 84
Psalms 127:3
Behold, children are a heritage of the LORD. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
Read Psalms 127
Ecclesiastes 3:13-14
Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labour, is the gift of God. I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.
Read Ecclesiastes 3
Daniel 2:21
“He changes the times and the seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding.”
Read Daniel 2
Matthew 13:11-12
He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them. For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.”
Read Matthew 13
Matthew 13:16-17
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. For most certainly I tell you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which you see, and didn’t see them; and to hear the things which you hear, and didn’t hear them.”
Read Matthew 13
Matthew 25:14-15
“For it is like a man going into another country, who called his own servants and entrusted his goods to them. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.”
Read Matthew 25
Matthew 25:21
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’”
Read Matthew 25
John 1:12-13
But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Read John 12
Acts 1:7-8
He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”
Read Acts 1
Acts 5:30-32
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed, hanging him on a tree. God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Read Acts 5
Romans 5:1-2
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Read Romans 5
Romans 5:5
And hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Read Romans 5
Romans 8:30
Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
Read Romans 8
1 Corinthians 4:7
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?
Read 1 Corinthians 4
1 Corinthians 12:27-31
Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers? Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.
Read 1 Corinthians 12
2 Corinthians 9:15
Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!
Read 2 Corinthians 9
Ephesians 1:3-6
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love, having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favour in the Beloved.
Read Ephesians 1
Ephesians 4:7-8
But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to people.”
Read Ephesians 4
Philippians 4:19
My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Read Philippians 4
2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.
Read 2 Timothy 1
Hebrews 11:6
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
Read Hebrews 11
James 1:12
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.
Read James 1
2 Peter 1:2-4
Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue, by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
Read 2 Peter 1
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Gifts From God In the Bible Summary
I hope you enjoyed this list of Bible verses about gifts from God.
As you discovered, there are many scriptures on gifts from God in the Bible that can give you wisdom on what it means to receive spiritual blessings from the Lord. If you’re looking for help in this area of your life as a Christian, then I encourage you to incorporate as many of these scripture passages into your daily Bible readings and prayers. Doing so will help you understand the wonderful gifts from God to believers in Christ.
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