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You have no part or share in our work, because your heart is not right in God's sight.
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Repent, then, of this evil plan of yours, and pray to the Lord that he will forgive you for thinking such a thing as this.
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For I see that you are full of bitter envy and are a prisoner of sin."
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Simon said to Peter and John, "Please pray to the Lord for me, so that none of these things you spoke of will happen to me."
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After they had given their testimony and proclaimed the Lord's message, Peter and John went back to Jerusalem. On their way they preached the Good News in many villages of Samaria.
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An angel of the Lord said to Philip, "Get ready and go south to the road that goes from Jerusalem to Gaza." (This road is not used nowadays.)
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So Philip got ready and went. Now an Ethiopian eunuch, who was an important official in charge of the treasury of the queen of Ethiopia, was on his way home. He had been to Jerusalem to worship God and was going back home in his carriage. As he rode along, he was reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah.
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The Holy Spirit said to Philip, "Go over to that carriage and stay close to it."
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Philip ran over and heard him reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah. He asked him, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
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The official replied, "How can I understand unless someone explains it to me?" And he invited Philip to climb up and sit in the carriage with him.