No servant 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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Gill's Exposition
No servant can serve two masters,.... See Gill on Mat 6:24.
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Luke 16:14
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luk 16:14And the Pharisees also who were covetous,.... Or lovers of money, the love of which is the root…
Adam Clarke
No servant can serve two masters - The heart will be either wholly taken up with God, or wholly engrossed with the world. See on Mat 6:24 (note).
We mistake if we imagine that the design of Christ's doctrine and holy religion was either to amuse us with notions of divine mysteries or to entertain us with notions of divine mercies. No, the…
Cambridge Bible
No servant can serve two masters God requires a whole heart and an undivided service. "If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ," Gal 1:10."Whosoever...will be the friend of the…
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