Matthew 6:20
but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust ruins and where thieves neither break in nor steal;
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
21because where your treasure is there your heart will be also.
Cross References
Matthew 19:21Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come follow me.”
Luke 18:22Well upon hearing these things Jesus said to him, “You still lack one thing: sell all you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
1 Timothy 6:19—storing up for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, so that they may lay hold on the eternal life.
Hebrews 11:26considering the reproach of Christ to be greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; because he was looking ahead to the reward.
1 Peter 1:4into an imperishable and undefiled and unfading inheritance, already reserved in the heavens for you,
Revelation 2:9‘I know your works and affliction and poverty (but you are rich), and the slander of those who claim to be Jews and are not, but are a 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 →