Acts 5:3

Peter confronts Ananias for letting Satan fill his heart to lie to the Holy Spirit by withholding part of the price. The sin is exposed as a lie against God's Spirit.

Cross-references · 25

• Jer 23:24Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.
• Isa 29:15Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• John 13:27After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
• John 13:2During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
• Acts 5:9But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”
• Jas 4:7Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• Eccl 5:4When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
• Job 22:13You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
• Eph 6:11–16Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• Ps 94:7–9They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
• Acts 5:4While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”
• Deut 23:21When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
• Luke 22:3Satan entered into Judas, who was also called Iscariot, who was counted with the twelve.
• Num 30:2When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
• Acts 5:2and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
• Matt 4:3–11The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
• Rev 12:9–11The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
• Rom 2:21–22You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?
• Gen 3:13–17Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
• 1 Chr 21:1–3Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
• Matt 13:19When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
• Prov 20:25It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.
• 1 Kgs 22:21–22A spirit came out and stood before Yahweh, and said, ‘I will entice him.’
• Hos 11:12Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.

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