2 Kings 5:20

Gehazi covets Naaman's gift and resolves to chase him for some reward. Greed in Elisha's servant stands in dark contrast to grace freely given.

Cross-references · 24

• 2 Kgs 4:12And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.
• 2 Kgs 4:36And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.
• Titus 1:7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
• 2 Pet 2:14–15Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
• 2 Kgs 4:31And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.
• 2 Kgs 6:31Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
• 2 Tim 4:10For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
• Acts 8:18–19And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,
• Exod 20:7Thou 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.
• 1 Tim 6:9–11But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
• John 12:5–6Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
• John 13:2And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him;
• Prov 26:16The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
• Hab 2:9Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
• 1 Sam 14:39For, as the LORD liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
• Luke 16:8And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
• Acts 5:2And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
• Matt 10:4Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
• 1 Pet 5:2Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
• Ps 10:3For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
• John 6:70Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
• Jer 22:17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
• Exod 20:17Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
• Luke 12:15And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

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