Acts 5:2

2 secretly kept part of the price for himself, and then brought the rest to the apostles and made an offering of it.

Acts 5:2 In-Context

1 But a man named Ananias - his wife, Sapphira, conniving in this with him - sold a piece of land,
2 secretly kept part of the price for himself, and then brought the rest to the apostles and made an offering of it.
3 Peter said, "Ananias, how did Satan get you to lie to the Holy Spirit and secretly keep back part of the price of the field?
4 Before you sold it, it was all yours, and after you sold it, the money was yours to do with as you wished. So what got into you to pull a trick like this? You didn't lie to men but to God."
5 Ananias, when he heard those words, fell down dead. That put the fear of God into everyone who heard of it.
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