“Stay with me,” Micah said to him, “and be my father and priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your provisions.” So the Levite went in
Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used
Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but willingly, as God would hav
When Elisha had fallen sick with the illness from which he would die, Jehoash king of Israel came down to him and wept o
I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a f
You have profaned Me among My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. By lying to My people who would listen,
For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierce
“Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it bet
and agreed to stay with him, and the young man became like a son to Micah.
So the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand, go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the LORD through him, ‘
I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Ple
and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?” And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver
And when the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, “My father, shall I kill them? Shall I kill them?”
Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God, who has made me a father to Pharaoh—lord of all his household and ru