Acts 8:18-23

¹⁸When Simon saw that it was through the placing of the apostles' hands on them that the Spirit was given, he brought them a sum of money and said,

¹⁹“Give me also this power of yours, so that, if I place my hands on anyone, he may receive the Holy Spirit.”

²⁰“A curse on you and on your money,” Peter exclaimed, “for thinking that God's free gift can be bought with gold!

²¹You have no share or part in our message, for your heart is not right with God.

²²Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord, that, if possible, you may be forgiven for such a thought;

²³for I see that you have fallen into the bitterness of envy and the fetters of sin.”