None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 16:11 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 If therefore ye were not faithful in the unjust mammon, who shall trust to you the true? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore if you have not been faithful in the [case of] unrighteous mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions), who will entrust to you the true riches? American Standard Version (1901) If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? Common English Bible If you haven’t been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? Catholic Public Domain Version So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon; who will trust you with that which is the true? |
None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Sell your possessions, and give alms; make to yourselves purses not growing old, an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts.
And if ye were not faithful with another, who shall give you your own?
And I say to you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of injustice; that, when ye fail, they might receive you into lasting tents.
And Jesus having heard these, said to him, Yet one thing fails thee: all whatever thou hast, sell and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
To me, the least of all the holy ones, was this grace given, to announce the good news in the nations, the untraceable riches of Christ.
Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him?
I counsel thee to buy gold of me refined by fire, that thou mightest be rich; and white garments, that thou mightest be surrounded, and that the shame of thy nakedness might not be made manifest; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mightest see.