Matthew 6:21

because where your treasure is there your heart will be also.

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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 ruins and where thieves neither break in nor steal;

22“The lamp of the body is the eye. So if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

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Cross References

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

Romans 7:5Because when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our body parts to produce fruit to death.

Colossians 3:1Furthermore, since you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, sitting at God's right;

Philemon 1:19I, Paul, am writing with my own hand, “I will repay” (rather than say to you that you actually owe me your very self!).

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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