Matthew 6:21

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

In Context

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

22The lamp of the body is the eye: if, therefore, your eye be sound, your whole body will be light:

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Cross References

Luke 12:34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Romans 7:5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were excited by the law, were active in our members, so as to bring forth fruit to death:

Colossians 3:1If, then, you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where the Christ sits at the right hand of God;

Philemon 1:19I, Paul, do write it with my own hand, I will repay it; that I may not say to you, that you owe to me even yourself besides.

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 →

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