Acts 5:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He kept back for himself part of the proceeds with his wife’s knowledge; he brought only part of it and placed it at the apostles’ feet.

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 4:37 : 37 sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and placed it at the apostles’ feet.
  • Acts 5:3 : 3 But Peter said,“Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back for yourself part of the proceeds from the sale of the land?
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.
  • 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.
  • 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children! 15 By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,
  • Josh 7:11-12 : 11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment! They have taken some of the riches; they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions. 12 The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. I will no longer be with you, unless you destroy what has contaminated you.
  • 2 Kgs 5:21-25 : 21 So Gehazi ran after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from his chariot to meet him and asked,“Is everything all right?” 22 He answered,“Everything is fine. My master sent me with this message,‘Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. Please give them a talent of silver and two suits of clothes.’” 23 Naaman said,“Please accept two talents of silver.” He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi. 24 When he arrived at the hill, he took them from the servants and put them in the house. Then he sent the men on their way. 25 When he came and stood before his master, Elisha asked him,“Where have you been, Gehazi?” He answered,“Your servant hasn’t been anywhere.”
  • Mal 1:14 : 14 “There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and my name is awesome among the nations.”
  • Mal 3:8-9 : 8 Can a person rob God? You indeed are robbing me, but you say,‘How are we robbing you?’ In tithes and contributions! 9 You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me– this whole nation is guilty.
  • Matt 6:2-3 : 2 Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward! 3 But when you do your giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
  • Matt 23:5 : 5 They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.
  • John 12:6 : 6 (Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)
  • Acts 4:34-35 : 34 For there was no one needy among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling them and bringing the proceeds from the sales 35 and placing them at the apostles’ feet. The proceeds were distributed to each, as anyone had need.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Acts 5:1
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    1The Judgment on Ananias and Sapphira Now a man named Ananias, together with Sapphira his wife, sold a piece of property.

  • Acts 5:3-12
    10 verses
    86%

    3But Peter said,“Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back for yourself part of the proceeds from the sale of the land?

    4Before it was sold, did it not belong to you? And when it was sold, was the money not at your disposal? How have you thought up this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people but to God!”

    5When Ananias heard these words he collapsed and died, and great fear gripped all who heard about it.

    6So the young men came, wrapped him up, carried him out, and buried him.

    7After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, but she did not know what had happened.

    8Peter said to her,“Tell me, were the two of you paid this amount for the land?” Sapphira said,“Yes, that much.”

    9Peter then told her,“Why have you agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!”

    10At once she collapsed at his feet and died. So when the young men came in, they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

    11Great fear gripped the whole church and all who heard about these things.

    12The Apostles Perform Miraculous Signs and Wonders Now many miraculous signs and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico.

  • Acts 4:37
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    37sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and placed it at the apostles’ feet.

  • Acts 4:34-35
    2 verses
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    34For there was no one needy among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling them and bringing the proceeds from the sales

    35and placing them at the apostles’ feet. The proceeds were distributed to each, as anyone had need.

  • Acts 2:44-45
    2 verses
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    44All who believed were together and held everything in common,

    45and they began selling their property and possessions and distributing the proceeds to everyone, as anyone had need.

  • Acts 8:18-21
    4 verses
    68%

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

    19saying,“Give me this power too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

    20But Peter said to him,“May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money!

    21You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God!

  • Acts 4:32
    66%

    32Conditions Among the Early Believers The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common.

  • Num 5:11-13
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    66%

    11The Jealousy Ordeal The LORD spoke to Moses:

    12“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

    13and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–

  • Acts 1:18
    65%

    18(Now this man Judas acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed, and falling headfirst he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
    2 verses
    65%

    4It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

    5Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  • 1 Cor 5:1-2
    2 verses
    65%

    1Church Discipline It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.

    2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

  • Titus 2:5
    65%

    5to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited.

  • Lev 6:2
    64%

    2“When a person sins and commits a trespass against the LORD by deceiving his fellow citizen in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen,

  • 1 Cor 9:5
    64%

    5Do we not have the right to the company of a believing wife, like the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

  • Acts 5:14-15
    2 verses
    64%

    14More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, crowds of both men and women.

    15Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets, and put them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow would fall on some of them.

  • 1 Pet 5:2
    64%

    2Give a shepherd’s care to God’s flock among you, exercising oversight not merely as a duty but willingly under God’s direction, not for shameful profit but eagerly.

  • 1 Tim 5:15-16
    2 verses
    64%

    15For some have already wandered away to follow Satan.

    16If a believing woman has widows in her family, let her help them. The church should not be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are truly in need.

  • Acts 5:18
    64%

    18They laid hands on the apostles and put them in a public jail.

  • Acts 3:5
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    5So the lame man paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.

  • Luke 22:5
    64%

    5They were delighted and arranged to give him money.

  • Mark 1:30
    63%

    30Simon’s mother-in-law was lying down, sick with a fever, so they spoke to Jesus at once about her.

  • Gen 2:25
    63%

    25The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.

  • Acts 5:27
    63%

    27When they had brought them, they stood them before the council, and the high priest questioned them,

  • Eph 5:22
    63%

    22Exhortations to Households Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord,

  • Acts 9:13
    63%

    13But Ananias replied,“Lord, I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem,

  • Acts 22:12
    63%

    12A man named Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who live there,

  • Luke 21:4
    63%

    4For they all offered their gifts out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had to live on.”

  • 2 Pet 2:3
    63%

    3And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

  • John 12:5
    63%

    5“Why wasn’t this oil sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?”

  • Luke 21:2
    63%

    2He also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.