Then Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart(A) to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the proceeds from the field? Wasn’t it yours while you possessed it? And after it was sold, wasn’t it at your disposal? Why is it that you planned this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God!”

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Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan(A) has so filled your heart(B) that you have lied to the Holy Spirit(C) and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?(D) Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal?(E) What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”(F)

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10 Now then, why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the disciples’ necks(A) that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

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10 Now then, why do you try to test God(A) by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke(B) that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?

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Let us not test Christ as some of them did[a] and were destroyed by snakes.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 10:9 Lit them tested

We should not test Christ,[a](A) as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 10:9 Some manuscripts test the Lord