Matthew 6:19

Do not treasure up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

Literal Standard Version

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 fasting, but to your Father who [is] in secret, and your Father, who is seeing in secret, will reward you.

20but treasure up to yourselves treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust disfigure, and where thieves do not break through nor steal,

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Cross References

Job 31:24If I have made gold my confidence, || And to the pure gold have said, My trust;

Psalms 62:10Do not trust in oppression, || And do not become vain in robbery, || Do not set the heart [on] wealth when it increases.

Proverbs 16:16To get wisdom—how much better than gold, || And to get understanding—to be chosen [more] than silver!

Ecclesiastes 2:26For to a man who [is] good before Him, He has given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He has given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this [is] vanity and distress of spirit.

Zephaniah 1:18Even their silver, even their gold, is not able to deliver them in a day of the wrath of YHWH, and in the fire of His jealousy is the whole land consumed, for He makes only a hurried end of all the inhabitants of the land!

Luke 12:21So [is] he who is treasuring up to himself, 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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