Acts 8:21
You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God!
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- Ezek 14:3 : 3 “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek me?
- Hab 2:4 : 4 Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion, but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.
- Matt 6:22-24 : 22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! 24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
- John 21:17 : 17 Jesus said a third time,“Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was distressed that Jesus asked him a third time,“Do you love me?” and said,“Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you.” Jesus replied,“Feed my sheep.
- Heb 4:13 : 13 And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.
- Rev 2:23 : 23 Furthermore, I will strike her followers with a deadly disease, and then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will repay each one of you what your deeds deserve.
- Rev 20:6 : 6 Blessed and holy is the one who takes part 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 this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city that are described in this book.
- Josh 22:25 : 25 The LORD made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the LORD.’ In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying the LORD.
- 2 Chr 25:2 : 2 He did what the LORD approved, but not with wholehearted devotion.
- Ps 36:1 : 1 For the music director; written by the LORD’s servant, David; an oracle. An evil man is rebellious to the core. He does not fear God,
- Ps 78:36-37 : 36 But they deceived him with their words, and lied to him. 37 They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.
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20 But Peter said to him,“May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money!
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22 Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart.
23 For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin.”
24 But Simon replied,“You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said may happen to me.”
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3 But Peter said,“Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back for yourself part of the proceeds from the sale of the land?
4 Before it was sold, did it not belong to you? And when it was sold, was the money not at your disposal? How have you thought up this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people but to God!”
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3 And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?
4 Or do you have contempt for the wealth of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, and yet do not know that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?
5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!
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7 Therefore do not be sharers with them,
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19 But Peter and John replied,“Whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God, you decide,
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21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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26 I tell you the truth, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny!
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33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out– a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
21 So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”
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4 If so, have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil motives?
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13 But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you.
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12 For if the eagerness is present, the gift itself is acceptable according to whatever one has, not according to what he does not have.
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8 And God, who knows the heart, has testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
9 and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.
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42 but I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.
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8 This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you!
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23 But he turned and said to Peter,“Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but on man’s.”
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3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.
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41 But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.
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14 Therefore be resolved not to rehearse ahead of time how to make your defense.
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