Naaman’s Leprosy Healed

5 Now ^(A)Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was ^(B)a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper.

^27 (A)And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”

¹⁸ For I will not dare to speak of any of those things ^(A)which Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, ^(B)to make the Gentiles obedient—

⁴ For Mordecai was great in the king’s palace, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces; for this man Mordecai ^(A)became increasingly prominent.

³⁷ Only you did not go near the land of the people of Ammon—anywhere along the River ^(A)Jabbok, or to the cities of the mountains, or ^(B)wherever the Lord our God had forbidden us.

¹⁰ And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, ^(A)suddenly Miriam became ^(B)leprous, as white as snow. Then Aaron turned toward Miriam, and there she was, a leper. ¹¹ So Aaron said to Moses, “Oh, my lord! Please ^(C)do not lay ^[a]this sin on us, in which we have done foolishly and in which we have sinned. ¹² Please ^(D)do not let her be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb!”

² “When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling, ^(A)a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his body like a ^[a]leprous sore, ^(B)then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests. ³ The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body; and if the hair on the sore has turned white, and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous sore. Then the priest shall examine him, and pronounce him ^[b]unclean.

^3 (A)And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man ^(B)Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people.

The Thorn in the Flesh

⁷ And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a ^(A)thorn in the flesh was given to me, ^(B)a messenger of Satan to ^[a]buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.