Matthew 6:24

No one can serve two masters, for either they will hate one and love the other, or else they will attach themselves to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

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In The King James Version

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

In Context

23but, if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be darkened. And, if the inner light is darkness, how intense must that darkness be!

25“This is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life – what you can get to eat or drink, or about your body – what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

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Cross References

Genesis 47:17So they brought their cattle to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, the flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle, and the donkeys. That year he sustained them with bread in exchange for all their cattle.

Joshua 24:19Joshua said to the people, “You may not be able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God, a jealous God, he will not forgive any sinful disloyalty of yours.

Zephaniah 1:5and those who worship on the housetops to the stars in the sky, and those worshippers of the Lord who also pay homage to Milcom,

Luke 16:9And I say to you ‘Win friends for yourselves with your dishonest money,’ so that, when it comes to an end, there may be a welcome for you into the Eternal Home.

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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