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.

Why

General references

Bible References

Was it not thine

1 Corinthians 8:8
But food will not commend us to God; we are no worse if we do not eat, and no better if we do.
1 Corinthians 9:5
Do we not have a right to take along a believing wife, even as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
Philemon 1:14
but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.

Why

Acts 8:21
You have no part or share in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

Thou hast

Acts 5:3
But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the price of the land?
Luke 10:16
"He who hears you hears me, he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me."
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

General references

Luke 14:33
So likewise, whoever of you does not give up all that he has cannot be my disciple.