Acts 8:22
convert, therefore, from this your wickedness, and implore God, if then the purpose of your heart may be forgiven you,
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
21you have neither part nor lot in this thing, for your heart is not right before God;
23for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive you being.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:29And you have sought your God YHWH from there, and have found [Him] when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
2 Chronicles 33:12And when he is in distress he has appeased the face of his God YHWH, and is exceedingly humbled before the God of his fathers,
Daniel 4:27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and your sins by righteousness break off, and your perversity by pitying the poor, behold, it is a lengthening of your ease.”
Amos 5:6Seek YHWH, and live, || Lest He prosper as fire [against] the house of Joseph, || And it has consumed, || And there is no quencher for Beth-El—
Jonah 1:6And the chief of the company draws near to him and says to him, “What are you [doing], O sleeper? Rise, call to your God, it may be God considers Himself of us, and we do not perish.”
Matthew 7:7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened 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 →