Matthew 6:21

For where your wealth is, there also will your heart be.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

In Context

20But amass wealth for yourselves in Heaven, where neither the moth nor wear-and-tear destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

22"The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eyesight is good, your whole body will be well lighted;

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Cross References

Luke 12:34For where your wealth is stored, there also will your heart be.

Romans 7:5For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions-- made sinful by the Law--were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.

Colossians 3:1If however you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God's right hand.

Philemon 1:19I Paul write this with my own hand--I will pay you in full. (I say nothing of the fact that you owe me even your own 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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