Bible Verses about “every good and perfect gift”

“Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”

“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose.”

“[Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”

“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”

“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”

“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”

“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

“Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”

“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.”

“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.”

“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”

“Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that [is] unprofitable for you.”

“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”

“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.”

“Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”

“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:”

“For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”

“A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.”

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

“¶ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”

“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.”

“Do not err, my beloved brethren.”

“Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”

“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”

“But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.”

“Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:”

“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.”

“If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,”

“And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be [ye] warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?”

“Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.”

“¶ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.”

“¶ What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?”

“For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”

“Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.”

“Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.”

“‹If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?›”

“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”

“Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.”

“For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.”

“But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?”

“¶ My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons.”

“For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;”

“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

“Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?”

“And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.”

“And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:”