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 10:9Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
• Acts 5:3–4But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
• Ps 95:8–11Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,
• Ps 78:56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies;
• Acts 15:10Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
• Ps 78:18–20They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
• Ps 78:40–41How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
• Deut 13:6–8If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
• Prov 16:5Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.
• Gen 3:9–13Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
• Prov 11:21Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
• Luke 16:2He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’
• Ps 50:18When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
• Exod 17:2Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
• Num 14:22because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;
• 2 Kgs 6:32But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”
• Matt 4:7Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”
• Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Mic 7:3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
• Exod 17:7He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us, or not?”
• Rom 10:15And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
• Acts 23:20–22He said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.
• Acts 5:6The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.

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