Acts 5:2 - English Majority Text Version 2009

² And he kept back for himself from the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and placed it beside the feet of the apostles.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² 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)

² 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

² 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

² 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.

Acts 5:2 Cross References

Matthew 23:5

But all their works they do in order to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and they enlarge the borders of their garments.

John 12:6

This he said, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to pilfer the things which were placed in it.

Acts 2:44

Now all who believed were together, and they had all things in common,

Acts 4:37

who, possessing a field, sold it and brought the money and placed it beside the feet of the apostles.

Acts 5:1

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

Acts 5:3

But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart [for] you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and [for ]you to keep back for yourself from the price of the land?

Acts 5:8

And Peter said to her, "Tell me whether you sold the land for so much?"She said, "Yes, for so much."

Philippians 2:3

doing nothing according to selfish ambition or conceit, but with humility, regarding one another as being better than yourselves.

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is[ the] root of all evil, of which some [by] aspiring have strayed away from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.