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Matthew 6:21

Matthew 6:21
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. This seems to be a proverbial expression, and contains in it another reason, dissuading from worldly mindedness; because of the danger the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Matthew 6:20-21

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven - That is, have provision made for your eternal felicity. Do not exhaust your strength and spend your days in providing for the life here, but let your chief…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Matthew 6:19-24

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

where your treasure is The words gain point if we think of the hoards buried in the earth.