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Matthew 6:21 KJV
Matthew · chapter 6 · verse 21
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.Matthew 6:21 · King James Version
What Matthew 6:21 means
Jesus puts treasure first and heart second, which is the opposite of how people usually say it. The heart follows the money rather than the other way round. That makes this a practical verse: move what you value, and your affections eventually move after it.
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Matthew 6:21 in context
19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Commentary
Cross references
- Colossians 3:1-3
- Luke 12:34
- 2 Corinthians 4:18
- Proverbs 4:23
- Isaiah 33:6
- Hebrews 3:12
- Jeremiah 4:14
- Matthew 12:34
Key words (Strong's)
- treasurethēsaurosthe place in which good and precious things are collected and laid up, a casket, coffer…G2344 →
- heartkardiathe heart, that organ in the animal body which is the centre of the circulation of the…G2588 →
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Worldly-mindedness is as common and as fatal a symptom of hypocrisy as any other, for by no sin can Satan have a surer and faster hold of the soul, under the cloak of a visible and passable profession of religion, than by this;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 19-24