Acts 5:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And with his wife's knowledge and connivance he kept back and wrongfully appropriated some of the proceeds, bringing only a part and putting it at the feet of the apostles.

American Standard Version (1901)

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Common English Bible

With his wife’s knowledge, he withheld some of the proceeds from the sale. He brought the rest and placed it in the care and under the authority of the apostles.

Catholic Public Domain Version

and he was deceitful about the price of the field, with his wife's consent. And bringing only part of it, he placed it at the feet of the Apostles.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And by fraud kept back part of the price of the land, his wife being privy thereunto: and bringing a certain part of it, laid it at the feet of the apostles.

Acts 5:2 Cross References

Malachi 1:14

But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a blemished thing: for I am a great king, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is terrible among the Gentiles.

Matthew 23:5

But all their works they do for to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

John 12:6

Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.

Acts 2:44

And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

Acts 4:37

having a field, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

Acts 5:1

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

Acts 5:3

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Acts 5:8

And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much. And she said, Yea, for so much.

Philippians 2:3

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.