“ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. ”
Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven - That is, have provision made for your eternal felicity. Do not exhaust your strength and spend your days in providing for the life here, but let your c...
True Righteousness in Relation to Wealth. The Sermon here passes from the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered parallels to this section in Lk. Matthew 6:19-21 . Treas...
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21. Where your treasure shall be By this statement Christ proves that they are unhappy men who have their treasures laid up on the earth: because their happiness is uncertain and of short du...
DISCOURSE: 1321 LAYING UP TREASURES IN HEAVEN Matthew 6:19-21 . Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but l...
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Where your treasure is - If God be the treasure of our souls, our hearts, i.e. our affections and desires will be placed on things above. An...
Lay not up, &c.— By taking a general review of what we have been hitherto taught in this divine sermon, we shall be led more distinctly to the meaning of the words now before us. After the beat...
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. For where your treasure is, [that which ye value most], there will your heart be also. [`Thy treasure-thy heart' is probably the tru...
The Sermon on the Mount (continued) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind, but that we are to loo...
Where your treasure is. — The words imply the truth, afterwards more definitely asserted, that it is impossible to “serve God and mammon” ( Matthew 6:24 ). Men may try to persuade themselves that t...
Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
What to Seek and Whom to Serve Matthew 6:19-26 What is in our inner life which answers to the eye of the body? Some have said that it is the intellect; others the heart. But it is truer to say...
In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a stateme...
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. These directions of our LOR...
CHOOSING THE BEST ‘Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.’ Matthew 6:21 This is the reason which our Lord gives for the precepts which go immediately before. And our heart...
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. This seems to be a proverbial expression, and contains in it another reason, dissuading from worldly mindedness; because of the danger the...
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Ver. 21. For where your treasure is, &c. ] i.e. Where your chief happiness is, there your affections will be settled: where the ca...
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth Our Lord here makes a transition from religious to common actions, and warns us of another snare, the love of money and earthly things, as inconsisten...
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to imp...
The Sermon on the Mount. 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves bre...
Ver. 19-21. A treasure (according to the notation of the word) signifieth something laid up for tomorrow, for future time; more largely it signifieth any riches, or what we judge a valuable portion...
1). The Choice As To Which Treasure Will Be Sought And Lived For. Analysis of Matthew 6:19-21 . a A “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on the earth, b B Where moth and rust consume, and w...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 6:19-20 . Lay not up … lay up . An instance of “the idiom of exaggerated contrast.” A literal compliance with the negative half of this precept would discourage thrift,...
Matthew 6:19-21 When Christ said these words, were there young people standing by? If so, they must have sounded very strangely in their ears. For youth does not realize that life on earth grows p...
Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. The motive which leads a man to give, will form the...
Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men. It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righte...
EXPOSITION Matthew 6:1-40 The relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day ( continued ); vide Matthew 5:17 , note. ( b ) Our Lord turns from cases which could b...
The only safe treasures:
2 Corinthians 4:18 ; Acts 8:21 ; Colossians 3:1-3 ; Hebrews 3:12 ; Isaiah 33:6 ; Jeremiah 22:17 ; Jeremiah 4:14 ; Luke 12:34 ; Matthew 12:34 ; Philemon 1:19 ; Philemon 1:3 ; Proverbs 4:23...
Luke 11:34 .