Acts 5:9

Peter exposes that the couple conspired to test the Spirit, and announces Sapphira will be carried out too. Their shared deceit invited shared judgment.

Cross-references · 23

• 1 Cor 10:9We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
• Acts 5:3–4Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?
• Ps 95:8–11do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
• Ps 78:56But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
• Acts 15:10Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
• Ps 78:18–20They willfully tested God by demanding the food they craved.
• Ps 78:40–41How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
• Deut 13:6–8If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,
• Prov 16:5Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.
• Gen 3:9–13But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
• Prov 11:21Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
• Luke 16:2So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’
• Ps 50:18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
• Exod 17:2So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?”
• Num 14:22not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—
• 2 Kgs 6:32Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
• Matt 4:7Jesus replied, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
• Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
• Mic 7:3Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
• Exod 17:7He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
• Rom 10:15And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
• Acts 23:20–22He answered, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul to the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of acquiring more information about him.
• Acts 5:6Then the young men stepped forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.

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