Matthew 6:20
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Cross References
Matthew 19:21Jesus said to him: If you would be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.
Luke 18:22When Jesus heard this, he said to him: One thing you yet lack; sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
1 Timothy 6:19treasuring up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Hebrews 11:26esteeming the reproach on account of the Christ as greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he earnestly looked to the reward.
1 Peter 1:4in respect to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for us,
Revelation 2:9I know your works, and your affliction, and your poverty, (but you are rich,) and the impious words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 6:20-25
The Sermon on the Mount. 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be… Read the whole commentary →