Acts 5:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

Was it not thine

Philemon 1:14

Why

Thou hast

General references

Ecclesiastes 5:5

Luke 14:33

Bible References

Was it not thine

And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes.

And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;

But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

Have we no right to take about with us a Christian wife, like the rest of the Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

But without your approval I would do nothing; so that your good works might not be forced, but done freely from your heart.

Why

You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God.

And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.

Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design:

Thou hast

But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.

So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?

And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.

Then he came in and took his place before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where have you come from, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant went nowhere.

For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.

Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.

Whoever, then, goes against this word, goes against not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

General references

It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.

And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.