Acts 4:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them,

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  • Acts 2:45 : 45 And exchanging their goods and property for money, they made division of it among them all, as they had need.
  • Acts 4:37-5:3 : 37 Having a field, got money for it and put the money at the feet of the Apostles. 1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, got money for his property, 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife having knowledge of it, and took the rest and put it at the feet of the Apostles. 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
  • 1 Thess 4:12 : 12 That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
  • 1 Tim 6:19 : 19 Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.
  • Deut 2:7 : 7 For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.
  • Ps 34:9-9 : 9 Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything. 10 The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.
  • Matt 19:21 : 21 Jesus said to him, If you have a desire to be complete, go, get money for your property, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come after me.
  • Mark 10:21 : 21 And Jesus, looking on him and loving him, said, There is one thing needed: go, get money for your goods, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come with me.
  • Luke 12:33 : 33 Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.
  • Luke 16:9 : 9 And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
  • Luke 22:35 : 35 And he said to them, When I sent you out without money or bag or shoes, were you in need of anything? And they said, Nothing.
  • Jas 1:27 : 27 The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 35 And put it at the feet of the Apostles for distribution to everyone as he had need.

  • Acts 2:42-47
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    42 And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.

    43 But fear came on every soul: and all sorts of wonders and signs were done by the Apostles.

    44 And all those who were of the faith kept together, and had all things in common;

    45 And exchanging their goods and property for money, they made division of it among them all, as they had need.

    46 And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,

    47 Giving praise to God, and having the approval of all the people; and every day the number of those who had salvation was increased by the Lord.

  • Acts 4:31-33
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    31 And when their prayer was ended, the place where they were was violently moved, and they all became full of the Holy Spirit, preaching the word of God without fear.

    32 And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul: and not one of them said that any of the things which he had was his property only; but they had all things in common.

    33 And with great power the Apostles gave witness of the coming back of the Lord Jesus from the dead; and grace was on them all.

  • 37 Having a field, got money for it and put the money at the feet of the Apostles.

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    13 And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:

    14 But so that things may be equal; that from those things of which you have more than enough at the present time their need may be helped, and that if you are in any need they may be a help to you in the same way, making things equal.

    15 As it says in the Writings, He who had taken up much had nothing over and he who had little had enough.

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    29 And the disciples, everyone as he was able, made a decision to send help to the brothers living in Judaea:

    30 Which they did, sending it to the rulers of the church by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

  • Acts 5:12-16
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    12 Now a number of signs and wonders were done among the people by the hands of the Apostles; and they were all together in Solomon's covered way.

    13 The others, in fear, kept back from joining them: but the people made much of them;

    14 And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;

    15 And they even took into the streets people who were ill, and put them on beds, so that when Peter went by, some of them might be in his shade.

    16 And numbers of people came together from the towns round about Jerusalem, with those who were ill and those who were troubled with unclean spirits: and they were all made well.

  • Acts 5:1-4
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    1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, got money for his property,

    2 And kept back part of the price, his wife having knowledge of it, and took the rest and put it at the feet of the Apostles.

    3 But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

    4 While you had it, was it not your property? and after you had given it in exchange, was it not still in your power? how has this purpose come into your mind? you have been false, not to men, but to God.

  • 33 Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.

  • 35 And he said to them, When I sent you out without money or bag or shoes, were you in need of anything? And they said, Nothing.

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    33 I have had no desire for any man's silver or gold or clothing.

    34 You yourselves have seen that with these hands I got what was necessary for me and those who were with me.

  • 4 But there will be no poor among you; for the Lord will certainly give you his blessing in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage;

  • 7 For they went out for love of the Name, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

  • 4 But those who had gone in flight went everywhere preaching the word.

  • 12 That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

  • 4 For they gave out of their wealth, having more than enough for themselves: but she, even out of her need, has put in all her living.

  • Acts 14:3-4
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    3 So they kept there for a long time, taking heart in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace by causing signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

    4 But there was a division among the people of the town; some were on the side of the Jews and some on the side of the Apostles.

  • 29 Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news,

  • 4 And when they came to Jerusalem, they had a meeting with the church and the Apostles and the rulers, and they gave an account of all the things which God had done through them.

  • 29 And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,

  • 2 On the first day of the week, let every one of you put by him in store, in measure as he has done well in business, so that it may not be necessary to get money together when I come.

  • 14 And, seeing that the man who had been made well was there with them, they were not able to say anything against it.

  • 34 For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.

  • 19 And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver.

  • 44 Because they all put in something out of what they had no need for; but she out of her need put in all she had, even all her living.

  • 24 And hearing it, they all, with one mind, made prayer to God and said, O Lord, maker of heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them:

  • 8 And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was.

  • 40 And at sundown all those who had anyone ill with any sort of disease, took them to him, and he put his hands on every one of them and made them well.

  • 24 Let a man give attention not only to what is good for himself, but equally to his neighbour's good.

  • 42 And every day, in the Temple and privately, they went on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.

  • 8 Then Peter, being full of the Holy Spirit, said to them, O you rulers of the people and men of authority,