saying, “Give me this power too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”
How can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?
Then Peter and John placed their hands on the Samaritans, and they received the Holy Spirit.
Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money,
But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money!
I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not acknowledge us.