and did keep back of the price -- his wife also knowing -- and having brought a certain part, at the feet of the apostles he laid it.Acts 5:2 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleKept back part of the price - Ananias and Sapphira were evidently persons who professed faith in Christ with the rest of the disciples. While all were making sacrifices for the present necessity, they came forward among the rest, pretending to bring all the money they had got for a possession, κτημα, (of what kind we know not), which they had sold. A part of this price, however, they kept back, not being willing to trust entirely to the bounty of Providence, as the others did; thinking probably, that, as the whole was their own, they had a right to do with it as they pleased. And so they had: they were under no necessity to sell their possession; but the act of selling it for the ostensible purpose of bringing it into the common stock, left them no farther control over it, nor property in it; and their pretense, that the money which they brought was the whole produce of the sale, was a direct lie in itself, and an attempt to deceive the Holy Spirit, under whose influence they pretended to act. This constituted the iniquity of their sin.
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Joshua 7:11,12 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing...
2 Kings 5:21-25 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said...
Malachi 1:14 But cursed be the deceiver, which has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King...
Malachi 3:8,9 Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed me. But you say, Wherein have we robbed you? In tithes and offerings...
John 12:6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put therein.
1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith...
2 Peter 2:14,15 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls...
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Acts 5:9 Then Peter said to her, How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold...
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Acts 4:34,35,37 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them...
Matthew 6:2,3 Therefore when you do your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets...
Matthew 23:5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
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