Matthew 6:24

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

No man may serve two lords, for either he shall hate the one, and love the tother; either he shall sustain the one, and despise the other. Ye may not serve God and riches.

Cross References

Genesis 47:17

And when they had brought those, he gave them meats for horses, and sheep, and oxen, and asses; and he sustained them in that year for the exchange of beasts.

1 Kings 18:21

Forsooth Elijah nighed to all the people of Israel, and said, How long halt ye into two parts? If the Lord is God, pursue ye [or followeth] him; and if Baal is God, pursue ye [or followeth] him. And the people answered not one word to him.

2 Kings 17:41

Therefore soothly these heathen men dreaded God; but nevertheless they served also their idols, for both their sons and the sons of their sons do so, till into this present day, as their fathers did.

Ezekiel 20:39

And ye, the house of Israel, the Lord God saith these things, Go ye each man after your idols, and serve ye those [or them]. That and if ye hear not me in this, and defoul more mine holy name in your gifts, and in your idols,

Zephaniah 1:5

and them that worship on roofs the knighthood of heaven, and worship, and swear in the Lord, and swear in Malcham;

Matthew 4:10

Then Jesus said to him, Go, Satan; for it is written, Thou shalt worship thy Lord God [or the Lord thy God], and to him alone thou shalt serve.

Luke 16:11

Therefore if ye were not true in the wicked thing of riches [or in the wicked riches], who shall betake to you that that is very? [or that is sooth?]

Luke 16:13

No servant may serve to two lords; for either he shall hate the one, and love the other; either he shall draw [or cleave] to the one, and despise the other. Ye may not serve to God and to riches.

Luke 16:9

And I say to you, make ye to you friends of the riches of wickedness, that when ye shall fail, they receive you into everlasting tabernacles.

Galatians 1:10

For now whether counsel I men, or God? or whether I seek to please men? If I pleased yet men, I were not Christ’s servant.

1 Timothy 6:17

Command thou to the rich men of this world, that they understand not highly [or proudly], neither that they hope in uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, that giveth to us all things plenteously to use;

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas, loving this world, hath forsaken me, and went to Thessalonica, Crescens into Galatia, Titus into Dalmatia;

James 4:4

Adulterers, know not ye, that the friendship of this world is enemy [or enmity] to God? Therefore whoever will be the friend of this world, is made the enemy of God.

Joshua 24:15

But if it seemeth evil to you, that ye serve the Lord, choosing is given to you; choose ye to you today that, that pleaseth, whom ye owe most to serve; whether to gods, which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, whether to the gods of Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; forsooth I, and mine house, shall serve the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:3

And Samuel spake to all the house of Israel, and said, If in all your heart ye turn again to the Lord, do ye away alien gods, Baalim, and Ashtaroth, from the midst of you; and make ye ready your hearts to the Lord, and serve ye him alone; and he shall deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.