Ahab went home, depressed and angry over what Naboth had said to him. He lay down on his bed, facing the wall, and would not eat.

Singing to a person who is depressed is like taking off a person's clothes on a cold day or like rubbing salt in a wound.

One day Elisha went to Shunem, where a rich woman lived. She invited him to a meal, and from then on every time he went to Shunem he would have his meals at her house.

So the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the country roads and lanes and make people come in, so that my house will be full.

but they held him back, saying, "Stay with us; the day is almost over and it is getting dark." So he went in to stay with them.

After she and the people of her house had been baptized, she invited us, "Come and stay in my house if you have decided that I am a true believer in the Lord." And she persuaded us to go.

We are ruled by the love of Christ, now that we recognize that one man died for everyone, which means that they all share in his death.