Bible Verses About Transience of Gifts

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

But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

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

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

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

Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

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;

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

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.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

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.

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.

But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

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

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

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

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

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

Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

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.

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

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

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

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

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

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

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.