Definition of "gifts" []

• Plural form of gift. (noun)

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• "But here the apostle speaketh of divers gifts and graces, for so _differing gifts_ do import, not of divers offices: for then they might not concur in one man, and consequently neither might the prophet teach, nor exhort, nor the deacon distribute, nor show mercy."
• "And indeed I think, if there be anything of quarrel against them, —tho I am not here to justify the proceedings of any, —it is that they, in fact, go upon such a character as the Scripture warrants: To put men into that great employment, and to approve men for it, who are men that have “received gifts from Him that ascended up on high, and gave gifts” for the work of the ministry and for the edifying of the body of Christ."
• "Throughout the entire ordeal our word gifts were called to task many times."