2 Kings 5:16
5:16 But Elisha
replied, “As certainly as the
Lord lives (whom I serve),
I will take nothing from you.” Naaman
insisted that he take it, but he refused.
2 Kings 5:20
5:20 Gehazi, the prophet Elisha’s servant, thought,
“Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him.
As certainly as the
Lord lives, I will run after him and accept something from him.”
2 Kings 5:2
5:2 Raiding parties went out from Syria and took captive from the land of Israel a young girl, who became a servant to Naaman’s wife.
Colossians 1:8-12
1:8 who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
Paul’s Prayer for the Growth of the Church
1:9 For this reason we also, from the day we heard about you, have not ceased praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
1:10 so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully
1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.
Colossians 1:11-15
1:11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of
all patience and steadfastness, joyfully
1:12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share
in the saints’
inheritance in the light.
1:13 He delivered us from the power of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves,
1:14 in whom we have redemption,
the forgiveness of sins.
The Supremacy of Christ
1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,