Acts 8:9

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Summary

But there was a certain man, called Simon, which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

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Giving

2 Peter 2:18

General references

Exodus 22:18

Acts 8:19

Bible References

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When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came upon a certain magician, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.

As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling.

Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.

Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts.

The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.

And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils came upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.

"If a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.

There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.

It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people,

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Giving

For before these days Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.

The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

General references

"You shall not permit a sorceress to live.

saying, "Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit."