33 (A)Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts that do not wear out, (B)an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor does a moth destroy.

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33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor.(A) Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven(B) that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.(C)

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33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

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And I say to you, (A)make friends for yourselves by means of the [a](B)wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it [b]is all gone, (C)they will receive you into the eternal dwellings.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 16:9 Gr mamonas, for Aramaic mamon (mammon); i.e., wealth, or money
  2. Luke 16:9 Or fails

I tell you, use worldly wealth(A) to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.(B)

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And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

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45 and they (A)would sell their property and possessions and share them with all, to the extent that anyone had need.

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45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.(A)

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45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

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34 For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses (A)would sell them and bring the [a]proceeds of the sales 35 and (B)lay them at the apostles’ feet, and they would be (C)distributed to each to the extent that any had need.

36 Now Joseph, a Levite of (D)Cyprian birth, who was also called (E)Barnabas by the apostles (which translated means Son of [b](F)Encouragement), 37 [c]owned a tract of land. So he sold it, and brought the money and (G)laid it at the apostles’ feet.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 4:34 Lit the prices of the things being sold
  2. Acts 4:36 Or Exhortation; or Consolation
  3. Acts 4:37 Lit a tract...belonging to him, he sold...

34 that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them,(A) brought the money from the sales 35 and put it at the apostles’ feet,(B) and it was distributed to anyone who had need.(C)

36 Joseph, a Levite from Cyprus, whom the apostles called Barnabas(D) (which means “son of encouragement”), 37 sold a field he owned and brought the money and put it at the apostles’ feet.(E)

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34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,

35 And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

36 And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,

37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

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