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33 (A)Sell your possessions and give it as charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, (B)an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys.

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And I say to you, (A)make friends for yourselves from the [a](B)wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, (C)they will [b]take you into the eternal dwellings.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 16:9 Gr mamonas (mammon); wealth personified as an object of worship
  2. Luke 16:9 Or receive

45 and they (A)began selling their property and possessions and were (B)dividing them up with all, as anyone might have 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 as 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 and who owned a field, 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, Consolation