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Matthew 6:24 KJV
Matthew · chapter 6 · verse 24
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.Matthew 6:24 · King James Version
Matthew 6:24 in context
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!
24No 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.
25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
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Cross references
- 1 John 2:15-16
- Luke 16:13
- James 4:4
- 1 Timothy 6:9-10
- Joshua 24:15
- Galatians 1:10
- Matthew 4:10
- Romans 6:16-22
Key words (Strong's)
- masterskyrioshe to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding master, lord…G2962 →
- despisekataphroneōto contemn, despise, disdain, think little or nothing ofG2706 →
- cannotouno, not in direct questions expecting an affirmative answerG3756 →
- cannotdynamaito be able, have power whether by virtue of one s own ability and resources, or of a…G1410 →
- servedouleuōto be a slave, serve, do service, of a nation in subjection to other nations, metaph. to…G1398 →
- hatemiseōto hate, pursue with hatred, detest, to be hated, detestedG3404 →
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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