III. “You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me”

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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Simony is defined as the buying or selling of spiritual things.⁵³ To
Simon the magician, who wanted to buy the spiritual power he saw at work in the
apostles, St. Peter responded: “Your silver perish with you, because you
thought you could obtain God’s gift with money!”⁵⁴ Peter thus held
to the words of Jesus: “You received without pay, give without
pay.”⁵⁵ It is impossible to appropriate to oneself spiritual goods
and behave toward them as their owner or master, for they have their source in
God. One can receive them only from him, without payment.

PART THREE: LIFE IN CHRIST

SECTION TWO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
- CHAPTER ONE YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND
  - Article 1 THE FIRST COMMANDMENT
    - III. “You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me”

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team