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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

  • If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. …

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

  • 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.

  • Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

  • And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

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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