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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2 Peter 2:18

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Acts 8:19

Bible References

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And having gone through the whole island to Paphos, they found a certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus,

And when we went to the proseuche, a certain female servant having a spirit, a diviner, met us, who brought her masters much gain by divining.

and many of those who believed came and confessed, and showed their practices.

As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, men of no judgment, reprobate in respect to the faith.

And he performs great miracles, so as even to make fire come down from heaven to the earth in the sight of men.

Without are dogs and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practises falsehood.

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For before these days Theudas arose, saying that he was somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, adhered, who was destroyed, and all who obeyed him passed away and came to nothing.

He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that sent him, this [man] is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

who opposes and exalts himself above every thing that is called a god or an object of worship, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,

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saying, Give me this power, that on whomsoever I lay my hand he may receive the Holy Spirit.