Acts 8:20 - Easy To Read Version

²⁰ Peter said to Simon, “You and your money should both be destroyed! You thought you could buy God’s gift with money.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ But Peter said to him, Destruction overtake your money and you, because you imagined you could obtain the [free] gift of God with money!

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ But Peter said unto him, Thy silver perish with thee, because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Peter responded, “May your money be condemned to hell along with you because you believed you could buy God’s gift with money!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ "Let your money be with you in perdition, for you have supposed that a gift of God might be possessed by money.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ Keep thy money to thyself, to perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

Acts 8:20 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 15:26

The Lord hates evil thoughts. But the Lord is happy with kind words.

Isaiah 55:1

“All you thirsty people,\par Come drink water!\par Don’t worry if you do not have money.\par Come, eat and drink until you are full!\par You do not need money;\par eat and drink until you are full.\par The food and wine cost nothing!\par

Daniel 5:17

Then Daniel answered the king. Daniel said, “King Belshazzar, you can keep your gifts for yourself. Or you can give those rewards to someone else. But I will still read the writing on the wall for you. And I will explain to you what it means.

Zechariah 5:4

The Lord All-Powerful says: I will send that scroll to the houses of thieves and to houses of people that lie when they use my name to make promises. That scroll will stay there and destroy those houses. Even the stones and wooden posts will be destroyed.”

Matthew 10:8

Heal sick people. Give dead people life again. Heal those people that have leprosy. {\cf2\super [124]} Force demons {\cf2\super [125]} to leave people. I give you these powers freely. So help other people freely.

Matthew 15:19

All these bad things begin in a person’s mind: evil thoughts, murder, adultery, {\cf2\super [210]} sexual sins, stealing, lying, saying bad things against other people.

Acts 1:18

(Judas was paid money for doing this. His money was used to buy him a field. But Judas fell on his head, and his body broke open. All his intestines poured out.

Acts 10:45

The Jewish believers who came with Peter were amazed. They were amazed that the Holy Spirit was poured out (given) to the non-Jewish people too.

Acts 11:17

God gave to these people the same gift that he gave to us who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. So could I stop the work of God? No!”

Acts 2:38

Peter said to them, “Change your hearts and lives and be baptized, {\cf2\super [42]} each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ. Then God will forgive your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. {\cf2\super [43]}

Acts 8:19

Simon said, “Give me this power so that when I put my hands on a person, he will receive the Holy Spirit. {\cf2\super [168]} ”

Acts 8:22

Change your heart! Turn away from this bad thing you have done. Pray to the Lord (God). Maybe he will forgive you for thinking this.

Deuteronomy 15:9

“Don’t ever refuse to help someone simply because the seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near. Don’t let an evil thought like that enter your mind. You must never have bad thoughts about a person that needs help. You must not refuse to help him. If you don’t help that poor person, then he will complain to the Lord against you. And the Lord will find you guilty of sin.

Deuteronomy 7:26

And you must not bring any of those terrible idols into your homes. You must hate those terrible things! You must destroy those idols!

1 Timothy 6:9

People who want to become rich bring temptations to themselves. They are caught in a trap. They begin to want many foolish things that will hurt them. Those things ruin and destroy people.

James 5:3

Your gold and silver will rust, and that rust will be a proof that you were wrong. That rust will eat your bodies like fire. You saved your treasure in the last days.

Revelation 18:15

“The merchants {\cf2\super [133]} will be afraid of her suffering and stand far away from her (Babylon). These are the people who became rich from selling those things to her. The people will cry and be sad.