⁴ While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”

^3 (A)But Peter said, “Ananias, why has ^(B)Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?

³ Moreover, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house, my own special treasure of gold and silver:

²⁵ Now he went in and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you go, Gehazi?”

And he said, “Your servant did not go anywhere.”

²⁶ Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it ^(A)time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants? ²⁷ Therefore the leprosy of Naaman ^(B)shall cling to you and your descendants forever.” And he went out from his presence ^(C)leprous, as white as snow.

^8 (A)Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, ^(B)who^[a] has also given us His Holy Spirit.

²⁵ And Joshua said, ^(A)“Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.” ^(B)So all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.

²⁶ Then they ^(C)raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So ^(D)the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called ^(E)the Valley of ^[a]Achor to this day.

⁹ Then Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together ^(A)to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

^16 (A)He who hears you hears Me, ^(B)he who rejects you rejects Me, and ^(C)he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”

¹⁰ ‘Thus says the Lord God: “On that day it shall come to pass that thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will make an evil plan: