Bible Verses About Temporary Gifts

And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

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?

A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.

Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: