Acts 5:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to put the Spirit of the Lord to the test? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

Cross References

Genesis 20:13

And when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.’ ”

2 Kings 6:32

So he dispatched a man from his presence. Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Are you aware that this murderer has sent someone to take off my head? When the messenger comes, see that you shut the door and hold it closed against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

Psalm 50:18

You make friends with a thief when you see one, and you keep company with adulterers.

Psalm 78:56

Yet they tested the Most High God and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees

Exodus 17:2

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 the Lord?”

Exodus 17:7

He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

Proverbs 11:21

Be assured, the wicked will not go unpunished, but those who are righteous will escape.

Proverbs 16:5

All those who are arrogant are an abomination to the Lord; be assured, they will not go unpunished.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.

Numbers 14:22

none of the people who have seen my glory and the signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness and yet have tested me these ten times and have not obeyed my voice

Matthew 4:7

Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’ ”

Luke 16:2

So he summoned him and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give me an accounting of your management because you cannot be my manager any longer.’

Acts 15:10

Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Acts 5:6

The young men came and wrapped up his body, then carried him out and buried him.

Romans 10:15

And how are they to proclaim him unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

Romans 3:19

Now we know that, whatever the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

1 Corinthians 10:9

We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents.