19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. …
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. …
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-24)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; and therefore Christ, having warned us against coveting the praise of men , proceeds next to warn us against coveting the wealth of the world; in this also we must take hee…
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