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Acts 8:18-20
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Acts 8:18-20
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
18 Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, 19 saying, “Give me also this power, that any one on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” 20 But Peter said to him, “Your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money![a]
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- 8.20 Hence the word “simony,” meaning “buying and selling spiritual powers and privileges.”
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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