Matthew 6:19

Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

In Context

18that you may not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal.

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Cross References

Luke 12:21So is he that lays up treasure for him self, and is not rich toward God.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 6:17-19

The Sermon on the Mount. 16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; 18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. We are here cautioned against hypocrisy in fasting, as before in almsgiving, and in… Read the whole commentary →

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