¹⁷ “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth^(A) as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the Lord.

¹⁸ to open their eyes^(A) and turn them from darkness to light,^(B) and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins^(C) and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’^(D)

³ For you have spent enough time in the past^(A) doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.^(B)

⁹ for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned^(A) to God from idols^(B) to serve the living and true God,^(C)

The Weak and the Strong

14 Accept the one whose faith is weak,^(A) without quarreling over disputable matters.

¹² Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters^(A) of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.^(B)

²⁴ “‘Make an altar^(A) of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings^(B) and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name^(C) to be honored, I will come to you and bless^(D) you.