Acts 8 17 25 May Your Money Perish With You

(Acts 8, 17-25) May your money go with you[17] Next they laid hands on them and they customary the holy Bidding. [18] At whatever time Simon saw that the Bidding was conferred by the laying on of the apostles' hands, he accessible them money [19] and assumed, "Convey me this power too, so that qualities upon whom I lay my hands may bow to the holy Bidding." [20] But Peter assumed to him, "May your money go with you, to the same extent you aimed that you may perhaps buy the gift of God with money. [21] You confine no share or lot in this obsession, for your heart is not principled in the future God. [22] Repent of this iniquity of yours and pray to the Lord that, if elective, your sketch may be forgiven. [23] For I see that you are chock-a-block with despondent annoy and are in the bonds of dissolution." [24] Simon assumed in articulate, "Beg for me to the Lord, that burn of what you confine assumed may come upon me." [25] So while they had testified and proclaimed the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem and preached the good communication to frequent Samaritan villages. (CCC 2121) Simony is fastidious as the wholesale or production of spiritual things (Cf. Acts 8:9-24). To Simon the magician, who accept to buy the spiritual power he saw at work in the apostles, St. Peter responded: "Your silver go with you, to the same extent you aimed you may perhaps nation God's gift with money!" (Acts 8:20). Peter hence held to the words of Jesus: "You customary defective pay, give defective pay" (Mt 10:8; cf. more willingly than Isa 55:1). It is absent to well-balanced to oneself spiritual wealth and conduct yourself on the way to them as their frame or master, for they confine their derivation in God. One can bow to them in the past few minutes from him, defective fee. (CCC 2118) God's first decree condemns the meat sins of irreligion: strong God, in words or activities, bad language, and simony.