For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Freely you have received; freely give.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
— John 1:3
What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.
One person gives freely, yet gains even more;
another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.
but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”