2 Kings 5:20

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Summary

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

Gehazi

My master

As the lord liveth

2 Kings 6:31

Exodus 20:7

1 Samuel 14:39

And take

General references

Matthew 26:9

Bible References

Gehazi

Then he said to Gehazi his servant, "Call this Shunammite." And he called her, and she came before him.

Simon of Canaan, and Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him.

Jesus answered them, "Have not I chosen you twelve? And yet one of you is the devil?"

This said he, not that he cared for the poor: but because he was a thief, and kept the bag, and bare that which was given.

And when supper was ended, after that, the devil had put in the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him.

When Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands on them, the holy ghost was given: he offered them money, saying,

My master

The sluggard thinketh himself wiser than seven men that sit and teach.

And the Lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely. For the children of this world, are in their kind, wiser than the children of light.

"Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?"

and kept away part of the price, his wife also being of counsel: and brought a certain part, and laid it down at the apostles' feet.

As the lord liveth

Then he said, "God do so and so to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat tarry on him this day!"

"Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

for as truly as the LORD liveth, which hath saved Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall die for it." But no man answered him of all the people.

And take

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house: neither shalt covet thy neighbor's wife, his manservant, his maid, his ox, his ass or ought that is his."

For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and speaketh good of the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

Nevertheless, as for thine eyes and thine heart, they look upon covetousness, to shed innocent blood, and to do wrong and violence.'"

Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune.

Wherefore he said unto them, "Take heed, and beware of covetousness. For no man's life standeth in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."

They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction.

For Demas hath left me, and hath loved this present world, and is departed into Thessalonica. Crescens is gone to Galatia, and Titus unto Dalmatia.

For a bishop must be faultless, as it becometh the minister of God; not stubborn, not angry, no drunkard, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre:

see that ye feed Christ's flock, which is among you, taking the oversight of them: not as though ye were compelled thereto, but willingly; Not for the desire of filthy lucre, but of a good mind.

having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease to sin, beguiling unstable souls. Hearts they have exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children,

General references

This ointment might have been well sold, and given to the poor."