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 to them, Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ to remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore repent and convert so that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

Truly, then, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now He strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

in meekness instructing those who oppose, if perhaps God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth,

And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication, and she did not repent.

Pray

And the Lord said to 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 is praying,

But if you shall seek Jehovah your God from there, you shall find Him, if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

yet if they shall think within themselves in the land where they are carried captives, and repent, and pray to You in the land of their captors saying, We have sinned and have done perversely, we have done wickedly,

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

Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

Seek Jehovah, and you shall live; lest He break out like a fire on the house of Joseph and devour it, and there be none to put it out in Bethel.

Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.

And I say to you, Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you.

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

If

Therefore, O king, let my advice be pleasing to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, whether there will be duration to your prosperity.

Yes, tear your heart and not your robes, and turn to Jehovah your God: for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and He pities because of the evil.

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate. It may be that the Lord Jehovah of Hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

And the chief of the seaman came to him and said to him, What is it to you, O sound sleeper? Arise, call upon your God! It may be that our god will notice us, and we will not perish.

Who knows? He may repent, and God may have pity and turn away from the glow of His anger, so that we do not perish.

in meekness instructing those who oppose, if perhaps God will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth,

The thought

But Peter said to him, May your silver 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 apart 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 then, everyone of you who does not forsake all his possessions, he cannot be My disciple.