Acts 8:18-24

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ Condemnation of Simony. When Simon saw that the Spirit was bestowed by the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, ¹⁹ saying, “Give me this power too so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” ²⁰ But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought that you could obtain God’s gift with money. ²¹ You have no part or share in this, for your heart is not upright in the eyes of God. ²² Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours and beg the Lord that if possible you may be forgiven for devising your evil scheme. ²³ I see that you are engulfed in the gall of bitterness and the chains of wickedness.”

²⁴ Simon said in reply, “Pray for me to the Lord that nothing of what you have spoken about may befall me.”