Matthew 6:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Matthew 6:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Colossians 3:1-3
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. …
Luke 12:34
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
2 Corinthians 4:18
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Isaiah 33:6
And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

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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 heed…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. For where your treasure is--that which ye value most. there will your heart be also--“Thy treasure--thy heart” is probably the true reading here: “your,” in Lu 12:34, from which it seems to have come in here. Obvious though this maxim be, by what multitudes who profess to bow to the teaching of Christ is it practically disregarded! “What a man loves,” says Luther, quoted by Tholuck, “that is h…