Matthew 6:20
"but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
21"For wherever your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Cross References
Matthew 19:21"If you want to be perfect," said Jesus, "go, sell your property, give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."
Luke 18:22And receiving this reply, Jesus said to him. "One thing you are still lacking. Sell all that you have and give it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven. Then come and follow me."
1 Timothy 6:19laying up right good treasure for themselves in the world to come, in order that they may obtain the Life which is life indeed.
Hebrews 11:26He accounted the obloquy of Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his eyes on the reward.
1 Peter 1:4and into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and fadeless, which has been kept in heaven for you
Revelation 2:9I know your persecution and your poverty - but you are rich! I know the reviling of those who say that they themselves are Jews, when they 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 →