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Acts 4:34–36

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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,
And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
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,
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From verse 34

  1. Acts 2:45Rank 1 from verse 34
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    45And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

  2. Luke 12:33Rank 2 from verse 34
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    33Sell 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.

  3. Luke 16:9Rank 3 from verse 34
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    9And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

  4. Deuteronomy 2:7Rank 4 from verse 34
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    7For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

  5. Luke 22:35Rank 5 from verse 34
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    35And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.

  6. Mark 10:21Rank 6 from verse 34
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    21Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

  7. Matthew 19:21Rank 7 from verse 34
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    21Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

  8. Psalms 34:9–10Rank 8 from verse 34
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    9O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

    10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

  9. 1 Timothy 6:19Rank 9 from verse 34
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    19Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

  10. Acts 4:37–3Rank 10 from verse 34
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  11. 1 Thessalonians 4:12Rank 11 from verse 34
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    12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

  12. James 1:27Rank 12 from verse 34
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    27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

From verse 35

  1. Acts 5:2Rank 1 from verse 35
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    2And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

  2. Acts 2:45Rank 2 from verse 35
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    45And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

  3. 2 Corinthians 8:20–21Rank 3 from verse 35
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    20Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:

    21Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

  4. Acts 4:37Rank 4 from verse 35
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    37Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

  5. Acts 3:6Rank 5 from verse 35
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    6Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.

  6. Acts 6:1–6Rank 6 from verse 35
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    1AND in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

    2Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

    3Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

    4But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

    5¶ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:

    6Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

From verse 36

  1. Galatians 2:1Rank 1 from verse 36
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    1THEN fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

  2. Galatians 2:13Rank 2 from verse 36
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    13And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

  3. Galatians 2:9Rank 3 from verse 36
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    9And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

  4. Acts 15:39Rank 4 from verse 36
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    39And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;

  5. 1 Corinthians 9:6Rank 5 from verse 36
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    6Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

  6. Acts 11:22–25Rank 6 from verse 36
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    22¶ Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.

    23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

    24For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

    25Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:

  7. Acts 11:30Rank 7 from verse 36
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    30Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

  8. Acts 12:25–1Rank 8 from verse 36
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  9. Acts 15:37Rank 9 from verse 36
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    37And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.

  10. Acts 21:16Rank 10 from verse 36
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    16There went with us also certain of the disciples of Cæsarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.

  11. Acts 11:19–20Rank 11 from verse 36
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    19¶ Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.

    20And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.

  12. Acts 15:12Rank 12 from verse 36
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    12¶ Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.

  13. Acts 15:2Rank 13 from verse 36
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    2When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

  14. Acts 9:27Rank 14 from verse 36
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    27But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

  15. Mark 3:17Rank 15 from verse 36
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    17And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:

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Acts 4:34

COMBINED MEANING

neither

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1. Also not; nor, introducing or joining a further negative statement or prohibition. 2. Not either, or none, of the alternatives named, commonly in a neither ... nor construction.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

houses

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Buildings or dwelling places; by extension, the families, households, estates, possessions, royal lines, or bodies of people associated with them.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Acts 4:35

COMBINED MEANING

laid

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Sense 1: Placed, set, put down, deposited, arranged, established, founded, imposed, applied, stored, buried, or overlaid. Sense 2: Reclined or brought to rest.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

apostles

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1. Persons sent or commissioned as messengers, including apostles of Christ or of the Lamb. 2. Persons who claim or present themselves as apostles without being true apostles.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

distribution

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The giving or apportioning of goods to others.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604

COMBINED MEANING

made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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COMBINED MEANING

need

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Sense 1: Want: occasion for something; necessity; a state that requires supply or relief. Sense 2: To require or lack something necessary.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Acts 4:36

COMBINED MEANING

apostles

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1. Persons sent or commissioned as messengers, including apostles of Christ or of the Lamb. 2. Persons who claim or present themselves as apostles without being true apostles.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

surnamed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of surname, meaning to give or adopt an additional distinguishing name.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

which

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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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interpreted

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of interpret, meaning to explain or unfold meaning; to translate words from one language into another.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

son

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1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

Levite

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A descendant of Levi; a member of the tribe set apart for tabernacle or temple service.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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4:32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

4:33And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

4:34Neither 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,

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4:35And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

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4:36And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,

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4:37Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

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