Acts 8:21

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You have no part or share in this ministry because your heart is not right before God.

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  • Ezek 14:3 : 3 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts and placed the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I really let myself be consulted by them?
  • Hab 2:4 : 4 Look! The proud person—his soul is not upright within him, but the righteous one will live by his faith.
  • Matt 6:22-24 : 22 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
  • John 21:17 : 17 The third time, Jesus asked, 'Simon son of John, do you love me?' Peter was hurt that Jesus asked him a third time, 'Do you love me?' He said, 'Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.' Jesus said to him, 'Feed my sheep.'
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from His sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account.
  • Rev 2:23 : 23 I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.
  • Rev 20:6 : 6 Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
  • Rev 22:19 : 19 And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away their share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
  • Josh 22:25 : 25 The LORD has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you—you Reubenites and Gadites! You have no share in the LORD.’ So your descendants might cause ours to stop worshiping the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 25:2 : 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.
  • Ps 36:1 : 1 To the choirmaster, a servant of the Lord, a psalm of David.
  • Ps 78:36-37 : 36 But they deceived Him with their mouths and lied to Him with their tongues. 37 Their hearts were not faithful to Him, nor were they loyal to His covenant.

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  • 20 But Peter said to him, 'May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!'

  • Acts 8:22-24
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    22 Repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive you for having such thoughts in your heart.

    23 For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.

    24 Then Simon answered, 'Pray to the Lord for me, so that nothing you have said may happen to me.'

  • Acts 5:3-4
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    3 But Peter said, 'Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds from the land?

    4 'Did it not remain yours while it was unsold? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to people, but to God.'

  • Rom 2:3-5
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    3 Do you think this, O person who judges those who practice such things, yet does the same yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?

    4 Or do you disrespect the riches of His kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

    5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

  • 7 Therefore, do not be partners with them.

  • 19 But Peter and John replied, 'Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge.'

  • 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

  • 8 Peter said to Him, 'You will never wash my feet!' Jesus answered, 'If I do not wash you, you have no share with Me.'

  • 6 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have set your heart as if it were the heart of a god,

  • 26 Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.

  • 8 Instead, you yourselves wrong and cheat—and you do this to your brothers and sisters.

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    33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make for yourselves purses that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

    34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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    20 But God said to him, 'Fool! This very night your soul will be required of you, and the things you have prepared—who will they belong to?'

    21 So it is with one who stores up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.

  • 15 Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight."

  • 4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

  • 47 The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God.

  • 17 But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.

  • 8 Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you ask, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.

  • 47 If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

  • 13 God will judge those outside. 'Expel the wicked person from among you.'

  • 26 'But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.'

  • 1 Therefore, you have no excuse, O person, whoever you are who judges. For when you judge someone else, you condemn yourself, because you practice the same things you judge others for.

  • 12 For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.

  • 37 When they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, 'Brothers, what shall we do?'

  • 17 Because you say, 'I am rich, I have become wealthy, and I don’t need anything,' yet you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

  • 10 And he said, 'You are full of all deceit and all fraud, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?'

  • 18 Your own way and your deeds have caused this to you; this is your calamity. How bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.

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    8 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us.

    9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

  • 33 But Jesus turned, looked at his disciples, and rebuked Peter, saying, 'Get behind me, Satan! You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.'

  • 8 whether those gods are nearby or far away, from one end of the earth to the other—

  • 12 In you, they accept bribes to shed blood; they take interest and increase unlawfully. You have gained profit in extorting your neighbors, and you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • 34 Then Peter began to speak: 'Now I truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

  • 42 But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • 8 Such persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.

  • 5 Therefore, you will have no one in the assembly of the LORD to divide the land by lot.

  • 23 But Jesus turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns."

  • 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

  • 41 But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.'

  • 14 Therefore, make up your minds not to prepare your defense beforehand.

  • 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

  • 13 No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

  • 18 When you see a thief, you join him, and you associate with adulterers.