Matthew 6:24 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁴ 2 For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ No man 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in).

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Common English Bible

²⁴ No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be loyal to the one and have contempt for the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Matthew 6:24 Cross References

Genesis 47:17

8 And they came the second year, and said to him: We will not hide from our lord, how that our money is spent, and our cattle also are gone: neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing now left but our bodies and our lands.

1 Kings 18:21

6 And they took the bullock which he gave them, and dressed it: and they called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying: O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered: and they leaped over the altar that they had made.

2 Kings 17:41

He trusted in the Lord the God of Israel: so that after him there was none like him among all the kings of Juda, nor any of them that were before him:

Ezekiel 20:39

7 And any to the south forest: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will kindle a fire in thee, and will burn in thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the dame of the fire shall not be quenched: and every face shall be burned in it, from the south even to the north.

Zephaniah 1:5

3 And their strength shall become a booty, and their houses as a desert: and they shall build houses, and shall not dwell in them: and they shall plant vineyards, and shall not drink the wine of them.

Matthew 4:10

8 And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishers).

Luke 16:11

9 There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen; and feasted sumptuously every day.

Luke 16:13

1 Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table, and no one did give him; moreover the dogs came, and licked his sores.

Luke 16:9

7 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fall.

Galatians 1:10

9 But other of the apostles I saw none, saving James the brother of the Lord.

1 Timothy 6:17

Calling to mind that faith which is in thee unfeigned, which also dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and in thy mother Eunice, and I am certain that in thee also.

2 Timothy 4:10

9 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

James 4:4

3 But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year, and will traffic, and make our gain.

Joshua 24:15

0 If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn, and will afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good he hath done you.

1 Samuel 7:3

And they said to Samuel: Cease not to cry to the Lord our God for us, that he may save us out of the hand of the Philistines.