Acts 5:3
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?
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Genesis 3:13The Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?"The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Deuteronomy 23:21When you shall vow a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not be slack to pay it: for the Lord your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
1 Chronicles 21:1Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
Psalms 94:7They say, "Yah will not see,neither will Jacob's God consider."
Ecclesiastes 5:4When you vow a vow to God, do not defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
Jeremiah 23:24Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him?' says the Lord. 'Do I not fill heaven and earth?' says the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Acts 5:2-12
The Case of Ananias and Sapphira. 1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 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. 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 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… Read the whole commentary →