For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
Cross References
John 3:27John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven.
Romans 12:3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.
Romans 12:6We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one's gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith;
1 Peter 4:10As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.
Treasury of Scripture
For who makes you to differ from another? and what have you that you did not receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?
who.
1 Corinthians 12:4-11
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit…
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Romans 9:16-18
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy…
maketh thee to differ.
1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
1 Corinthians 7:7
For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
1 Chronicles 29:11-16
Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all…
why.
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
2 Chronicles 32:23-29
And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth…
Ezekiel 28:2-5
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: …
