Hosea 2:8-9 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.… "In all my career," General Gordon once wrote, "I can lay no claim to cleverness, discretion, or wisdom. My success has been due to a series of (called by the world) flukes. When one knows the little one does of oneself, and any one praises you, I, at any rate, have a rising in the gorge which is a suppressed, 'You lie!' Who is he, or who is any man, that he should be praised? I do nothing. Do not flatter yourself that you are wanted — that God could not work without you; it is an honour if He employs you. No one is indispensable, either in this world's affairs or in spiritual works." "Do not send me your paper with anything written about me," he said on parting. "I do not want to see it, or to have anything to do with it. These things are not in my hands, and mind, do not forget — no gilt!" Parallel Verses KJV: For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal. |
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