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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 16:11 - King James 2000 If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? 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? |
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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Sell what you have, and give alms; provide yourselves purses which grow not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts.
And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it fails, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet you lack one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute unto the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them that love him?
I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white clothing, that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness does not appear; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.