What the Bible has to Say About Your Ability


Deut 16:17 (NASU) "Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.

Psal 18:29 (NASU) For by You I can run upon a troop;
And by my God I can leap over a wall.

Matt 17:20 (NASU) And He ^said to them, "Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, `Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

Matt 25:15 (NASU) "To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey.

Mark 9:23 (NASU) And Jesus said to him, "`If You can?' All things are possible to him who believes."

Luke 17:6 (NASU) And the Lord said, "If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, `Be uprooted and be planted in the sea'; and it would obey you.

Roma 12:6 (NASU) Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, [each of us is to exercise them accordingly]: if prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith;

2Cor 3:5 (NASU) Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as [coming] from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,

Phil 4:13 (NASU) I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

1Pet 4:10 (NASU) As each one has received a [special] gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
11 (NASU) Whoever speaks, [is to do so] as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves [is to do so] as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

1Cor 7:7 (NASU) Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.

1Cor 12:4 (NASU) Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.
6 There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all [persons].
7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
8 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;
9 to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
10 and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another [various] kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

Ephe 4:7 (NASU) But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ's gift.

Ephe 4:11 (NASU) And He gave some [as] apostles, and some [as] prophets, and some [as] evangelists, and some [as] pastors and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;

1Tim 4:14 (NASU) Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed on you through prophetic utterance with the laying on of hands by the presbytery.

Jame 1:17 (NASU) Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.