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 10:9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
• Acts 5:3–4But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
• Ps 95:8–11Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
• Ps 78:56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
• Acts 15:10Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
• Ps 78:18–20And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
• Ps 78:40–41How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
• Deut 13:6–8If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
• Prov 16:5Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
• Gen 3:9–13And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
• Prov 11:21Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
• Luke 16:2And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.
• Ps 50:18When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
• Exod 17:2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
• Num 14:22Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
• 2 Kgs 6:32But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?
• Matt 4:7Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
• Rom 3:19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
• Mic 7:3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
• Exod 17:7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
• Rom 10:15And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
• Acts 23:20–22And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
• Acts 5:6And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.

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