²⁰ Ahab said to Elijah, “So you have found me, my enemy!”^(A)

“I have found you,” he answered, “because you have sold^(B) yourself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

²⁵ (There was never^(A) anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife.

¹⁷ They sacrificed^(A) their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens^(B) and sold^(C) themselves to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.

⁶ For we know that our old self^(A) was crucified with him^(B) so that the body ruled by sin^(C) might be done away with,^[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin^(D)—

³ So also, when we were underage, we were in slavery^(A) under the elemental spiritual forces^[a] of the world.^(B)