30 And the Lord said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, ^oyour sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.” 31 But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart. ^pHe did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.

27 And when Ahab heard those words, he ^otore his clothes and ^pput sackcloth on his flesh and ^qfasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.

29 “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; ^rbut in his son’s days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”

15 ^bSome indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.

16 The latter do it out of love, ^cknowing that I am put here for ^dthe defense of the gospel.

18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.

To Live Is Christ

Yes, and I will rejoice,