Acts 8:22
Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
21You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.
23For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:29But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.
2 Chronicles 33:12And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
Daniel 4:27For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.
Amos 5:6Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.
Jonah 1:6And the ship's captain came to him and said to him, What are you doing sleeping? Up! say a prayer to your God, if by chance God will give a thought to us, so that we may not come to destruction.
Matthew 7:7Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:
Matthew Henry on Acts 8:15-26
The Account of Simon Magus. 14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: 15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: 16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. 18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was… Read the whole commentary →