No one 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 - Modern King James Version Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will entrust the true riches to you? 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 one 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. Make for yourselves purses which do not become old, an unfailing treasure in Heaven, where no thief comes nor moth corrupts.
And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give you that which is your own?
And I say to you, Make friends by the mammon of unrighteousness for yourselves, so that when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.
And when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, Yet you lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven. And come, follow Me.
This grace is given to me (who am less than the least of all saints) to preach the gospel of the unsearchable riches of Christ among the nations,
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?
I counsel you to buy from Me gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.