Make it your aim to live a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to earn your own living, just as we told you before.

In this way you will win the respect of those who are not believers, and you will not have to depend on anyone for what you need.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we command these people and warn them to lead orderly lives and work to earn their own living.

While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought a dead person back to life, the woman made her appeal to the king. Gehazi said to him, "Your Majesty, here is the woman and here is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!"

That same night the king could not get to sleep, so he had the official records of the empire brought and read to him.

The part they read included the account of how Mordecai had uncovered a plot to assassinate the king---the plot made by Bigthana and Teresh, the two palace eunuchs who had guarded the king's rooms.

For only a penny you can buy two sparrows, yet not one sparrow falls to the ground without your Father's consent.

It so happened that a priest was going down that road; but when he saw the man, he walked on by on the other side.