Matthew 6:19
17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
18 so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
- KJV
- Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
- WEB
- “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
- ASV
- Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
- DARBY
- Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;
- BLB
- Do not treasure up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break in and steal.
- ÅB
- «Ikke samle dere skatter på jorden, der møll og rust tærer, og der tyver bryter inn og stjeler;
- OTB
- "Ikke samle skatter for dere selv på jorden, hvor møll og rust ødelegger, og hvor tyver bryter inn og stjeler.
- B1930
- Samle eder ikke skatter på jorden, hvor møll og rust tærer, og hvor tyver bryter inn og stjeler;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
Read in context1 John 2:15–16
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Read in contextLuke 12:21
This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
Read in contextProverbs 23:4–5
Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
Read in contextJames 5:1–3
Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
Read in contextProverbs 11:4
Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Read in contextProverbs 16:16
How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.
Read in context1 Timothy 6:17
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
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