Acts 8:22

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Summary

Acts 8:22

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

Repent

Pray

If

The thought

Acts 8:20

Hebrews 4:12

General references

Luke 14:33

Bible References

Repent

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

And the times of this ignorance God overlooked; but now commands all men everywhere to repent:

Or despise you the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?

In meekness instructing those that oppose them; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

And I gave her time to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

Pray

And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prays,

But if from there you shall seek the LORD your God, you shall find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Yet if they shall come to themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto you in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you upon him while he is near:

Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

If

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto you, and break off your sins by practicing righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of your tranquility.

And tear your hearts, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

So the captain came to him, and said unto him, What mean you, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

In meekness instructing those that oppose them; if God perhaps will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

The thought

But Peter said unto him, Your money perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

For the word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

General references

So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he has, he cannot be my disciple.