Bible verse
You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
Acts 8:21 · BSB
The verses around it, from Acts 8.
17 Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money.
19 “Give me this power as well,” he said, “so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
20 But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
21 You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
22 Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.
23 For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
24 Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me, so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”
25 And after Peter and John had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many of the Samaritan villages.
KJV
Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
ASV
Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right before God.
ERV
Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right before God.
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