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Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
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Repentance Starts in the Heart
Peter commands Simon to repent of the "thought of thy heart." Commentators stress that true repentance isn't just changing outward actions but involves a fundamental change in one's inner desires and motives. Scholars like Albert Barnes note that this inner change must come before prayer can be effective, as God looks at the heart's orientation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Repent therefore. Here we may remark:
Wickedness (κακιας). Only here in Luke's writings, though old word and in LXX (cf. 1 Peter 2:1,16).
If …
19th Century
Anglican
Repent therefore of this your wickedness.—The stern words of condemnation are, we see, meant to heal, not to slay. Rightl…
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Baptist
And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, saying, Give me also this pow…
Simon’s response to the presence of God’s Spirit and the evidences of God’s power is one of those tragic stories that accompany every advance of th…
16th Century
Protestant
Repent, therefore. Since he exhorts him to repentance and prayer, he thereby gives him some hope of pardon. For no one will ever be touche…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Repent therefore of this your wickedness For a great piece of wickedness it was, to offer money for the gift of the …
The Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of these converts with the extraordinary powers conveyed by the Spirit's descent on the day of Pentecos…
