⁷ And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh ^[a]a quarrel against me.

¹⁷ (as it is written, ^[a]A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

^9 [a]yea, we ourselves have had the ^[b]sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead: