2 Kings 5:25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, From where come you, Gehazi? And he said… A little newsboy, to sell his paper, told a lie. The matter came up in the Sunday school. "Would you tell a lie for a penny?" asked a young lady teacher of one of her boys. "No ma'am," he answered very decidedly. "For sixpence, then? No ma'am." "For a shilling? "No, ma'am?" "For a thousand shillings?" Dick was staggered. A thousand shillings looked big. Wouldn't it buy a lot of things? While he was thinking, another boy behind him called out, "No, ma'am." "Why not?" asked the teacher. "Because," said the boy, "when the thousand shillings are all gone, and all the things they've got with them have gone too, the lie is there, all the same." It is so. A lie sticks. Everything else may be gone, but that is left, and it must be carried with you, whether you will or not. Parallel Verses KJV: But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither. |
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