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Acts 8:15-23 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

15. Who, when they were come, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost.

16. For he was not as yet come upon any of them; but they were only baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

17. Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

18. And when Simon saw, that by the imposition of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

19. Saying: Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I shall lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said to him:

20. Keep thy money to thyself, to perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

21. Thou hast no part nor lot in this matter. For thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

22. Do penance therefore for this thy wickedness; and pray to God, that perhaps this thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee.

23. For I see thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bonds of iniquity.

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