For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his office let another take.

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

But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Therefore, brethren, pick out from among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O you house of Israel, have you offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,