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Matthew 6:19

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

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But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

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

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The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

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But 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!

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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.

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Therefore 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?

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Behold ° 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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Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

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And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

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And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

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Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

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Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

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(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

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But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Matthew 6:24

6:24 serve God and mammon. See notes on Luke 16:8-10.

Matthew 6:27

6:27 taking thought. The phrase “take thought” (Matthew 6:25,27,28,31,34) connotes “take anxious thought”—that is, to worry or be anxious. A believer should not be slothful or imprudent, and certainly not greedy or miserly, but should honor the Lord in all aspects of life, having faith that God will supply his needs (Matthew 6:33; Philippians 4:19).

Matthew 6:33

6:33 kingdom of God. This is the first use of the phrase “the kingdom of God,” which occurs five times in Matthew and frequently in the other gospels. The equivalent term “kingdom of heaven” is used only in Matthew (see note on Matthew 3:2).

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