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But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.

You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.

Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

And straight away, in the Synagogues, he was preaching Jesus as the Son of God.

A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.

And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.

And when the angel who said these words to him had gone away, he sent for two of his house-servants, and a God-fearing man of the army, one of those who were waiting on him at all times;

And the voice came to him a second time, What God has made clean, do not you make common.

And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.

And he said to them, You yourselves have knowledge that it is against the law for a man who is a Jew to be in the company of one who is of another nation; but God has made it clear to me that no man may be named common or unclean:

Who said, Cornelius, your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your offerings are kept in his memory.

So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.

Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons:

About Jesus of Nazareth, how God gave the Holy Spirit to him, with power: and how he went about doing good and making well all who were troubled by evil spirits, for God was with him.

On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen,

Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.

And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.

And they were talking in tongues, and giving glory to God. Then Peter said,

Now the Apostles and the brothers who were in Judaea had news that the word of God had been given to the Gentiles.

But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.