¹⁸ Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

⁵ and constant friction among people ^(A)who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, ^(B)imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

^8 (A)Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers,^[a] cast out demons. ^(B)You received without paying; give without pay.

¹⁹ You have profaned me among my people ^(A)for handfuls of barley ^(B)and for pieces of bread, putting to death souls who should not die and keeping alive souls who should not live, by your lying to my people, who listen to lies.

⁹ So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, all kinds of goods of Damascus, forty camels' loads. When he came and stood before him, he said, ^(A)“Your son Ben-hadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, ‘Shall I recover from this sickness?’”

Gehazi's Greed and Punishment

¹⁵ Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, “Behold, I know that ^(A)there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so ^(B)accept now a present from your servant.” ¹⁶ But he said, ^(C)“As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, ^(D)I will receive none.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.