(6) Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
(6) The labours of those men are shown to be vain, which pass not for the assured treasure of everlasting life, but spend their lives in scraping together stale and vain riches.
Verse Matthew 6:19. _LAY NOT UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES UPON EARTH_] What blindness is it for a man to lay up that as a _treasure_ which must necessarily perish! A heart designed for God and eternity...
LAY NOT UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES UPON EARTH - Treasures, or wealth, among the ancients, consisted in clothes or changes of raiment, as well as in gold, silver, gems, wine, lands, and oil. It meant...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Better Righteousness.(Matthew 6:1 .) 2. Kept in the World; Single-eyed; Trusting God.(Matthew 6:19 .)_ Our Lord said: “For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass th...
TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS IN RELATION TO WEALTH. The Sermon here passes from the shortcomings of the Scribes and Pharisees. There are scattered parallels to this section in Lk. MATTHEW 6:19. TREASURE (Luke...
THE REWARD MOTIVE IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Matthew 6:1-18) When we study the opening verses of Matthew 6:1-34, we are immediately confronted with one most important question-- What is the place of the...
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth. where moth and rust destroy them, and where thieves dig through and steal. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not dest...
AS TO RICHES. LAY... UP. Treasure... up. CORRUPT. cause to vanish....
(_d_) Earthly possessions and daily cares, 19 34. 19. _treasures upon earth_ Love of amassing wealth has been characteristic of the Jews in all ages. _moth and rust_ Oriental wealth consisted to a g...
ΘΗΣΑΥΡΟῪΣ ἘΠῚ ΤΗ͂Σ ΓΗ͂Σ. Cp. ἐκ γῆς γὰρ τάδε πάντα καὶ ἐς γῆν πάντα τελευτᾷ (Xenophanes). Love of amassing wealth has been characteristic of the Jews in all ages. Oriental wealth consisted to a great...
VER 19. "LAY NOT UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES UPON EARTH, WHERE MOTH AND RUST DOTH CORRUPT, AND WHERE THIEVES BREAK THROUGH AND STEAL: 20. BUT LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES IN HEAVEN, WHERE NEITHER M...
_THE ACTIONS OF FASTING AND GIVING MATTHEW 6:16-21_ : Fasting is to be seen only by God. God said, "When you fast." It seems that fasting is expected among Christians, but not commanded for Christians...
ΘΗΣΑΥΡΊΖΕΤΕ _praes. act. imper. от_ ΘΗΣΑΥΡΊΖΩ (G2343) собирать сокровища. Относительно _imper._ с отр. _см._ Matthew 6:16. ΌΠΟΥ (G3699) rel. где. Истинная ценность любых сокровищ определяется их место...
DISCOURSE: 1321 LAYING UP TREASURES IN HEAVEN Matthew 6:19. _Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up fo...
LAY NOT UP, &C.— By taking a general review of what we have been hitherto taught in this divine sermon, we shall be led more distinctly to the meaning of the words now before us. After the beatitudes,...
E. THE WEALTH AND WORRIES OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Matthew 6:19-34) TEXT 6:19-34 1. HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD EARTHLY TREASURES. (6:19-21) 19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth. where m...
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: LAY NOT UP FOR YOURSELVES-OR HOARD NOT-TREASURES UPON EARTH, WHERE MOTH...
14-15 Compare Mar_11:25-26. 14 Forgiveness now is according to the riches of His grace (Eph_1:7), not according to our forgiveness of others. The believers in Israel failed at this point. Their forgi...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind, but that we are to look fo...
THE EARTHLY TREASURE AND THE HEAVENLY TREASURE. When do we lay up 'treasure in heaven'? Whenever we give alms (Matthew 6:2), or pray (Matthew 6:5), or fast (Matthew 6:16), to please God rather than ma...
MOTH AND RUST] Wealth in Eastern lands is largely stored and hoarded. Much of it consists of costly changes of raiment, which are liable to the attacks of moths. BREAKTHROUGH] lit. 'dig through,' viz....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 THE RIGHT WAY TO GIVE GIFTS 6:1-4 V1 ‘Be careful not to show how good you are in front of other people. Do not do your good works...
LAY NOT UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES. — Literally, with a force which the English lacks, _treasure not up your treasures._ WHERE MOTH AND RUST DOTH CORRUPT. — The first word points to one form of Easte...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
_Against hoarding_. θησαυροὺς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, treasures upon earth, and therefore earthly, material, perishable, of whatever kind. σὴς, moth, destructive of costly garments, one prominent sort of treasur...
_Counsels against covetousness and care_ (reproduced in Luke 12:22-34, with exception of Matthew 6:22-23, which reappear in Luke 11:34-36). An interpolation, according to Weiss. Doubtless, if the Serm...
WHAT TO SEEK AND WHOM TO SERVE Matthew 6:19-26 What is in our inner life which answers to the eye of the body? Some have said that it is the intellect; others the heart. But it is truer to say that...
In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a statemen...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
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. These directions of our LORD...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
Matthew 6:19._Lay not up. _This deadly plague reigns everywhere throughout the world. Men are grown mad with an insatiable desire of gain. Christ charges them with folly, in collecting wealth with gre...
This discourse gives the principles of the kingdom, but supposes the rejection of the King, and the position into which this would bring those that were His; who consequently must look for a heavenly...
LAY NOT UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES UPON EARTH,.... Meaning either treasures that are of an earthly nature and kind, the more valuable and excellent things of the earth, worldly wealth and riches; or...
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: Ver. 19. _Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth_] This is the fou...
_Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth_ Our Lord here makes a transition from religious to common actions, and warns us of another snare, the love of money and earthly things, as inconsistent...
TREASURERS; those things which men most love, and which they regard as their chief good....
WARNING AGAINST COVETOUSNESS AND CARE. A new topic, introducing an exposition of the first table of the Law: LAY NOT UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES UPON EARTH, WHERE MOTH AND RUST DOTH CORRUPT, AND WHER...
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to impr...
19-24 Worldly-mindedness is a common and fatal symptom of hypocrisy, for by no sin can Satan have a surer and faster hold of the soul, under the cloak of a profession of religion. Something the soul...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 6:21"....
First Apology of Justin For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for it? Lay up treasure, therefore, in heaven, where...
Matthew 6:19 not G3361 up G2343 (G5720) yourselves G5213 treasures G2344 on G1909 earth G1093 where G3699 moth...
THEY MUST LAY UP THEIR TREASURE IN HEAVEN AS THEY CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON (6:19-24). Having dealt with the question of what His disciples' attitude is to be towards ‘religious' activity, namely ch...
1). THE CHOICE AS TO WHICH TREASURE WILL BE SOUGHT AND LIVED FOR. Analysis of Matthew 6:19. a A “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on the earth, b B Where moth and rust consume, and where thie...
CONNECTION AND CONTENTS. The _external connection_ seems to be between ‘they have received their reward,' which closes each of the foregoing examples of false piety, and ‘lay not up for yourselves tre...
Matthew 6:19. LAY NOT UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES, literally, ‘treasure not for yourselves treasures.' UPON THE EARTH. This qualifies ‘Lay not up,' rather than ‘treasures.' Earthly treasures are not...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
LAY NOT UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES (μη θησαυριζετε υμιν θησαυρους). Do not have this habit (μη and the present imperative). See on Matthew 2:11 for the word "treasure." Here there is a play on the...
Matthew 6:19 When Christ said these words, were there young people standing by? If so, they must have sounded very strangely in their ears. For youth does not realize that life on earth grows pale, no...
Matthew 6:5. _And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men._ We oug...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven._ The motive which leads a man to give, will form the tr...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Formalism condemned. The new revelation of prayer (disciples prayer). The law of riches. Cure of anxiety. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: True relationsh...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men._ It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteous...
DO NOT SAVE RICHES. This does not forbid having a bank account, but it does forbid the piling up of wealth for worldly purposes. It is not _money_ which is the root of evil, but the LOVE of money (1 T...
_Treasures upon earth._ -This does not discourage diligent endeavour for the body which is necessary; industry, which is one part of duty. We are not to over-value even these valuable possessions. I...
OLD IRON Bright iron. Ezekiel 27:19. Rust. Matthew 6:19. Today we have two texts and they have both come with me to the pulpit. The first is “bright iron,” and here you have a nice, bright, sharp p...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:19 MOTH... RUST... THIEVES. See note on Luke 12:33–34. ⇐...
CHAPTER 6 _Take heed_. &c. Instead of _alms_, some Greek Codices read _δικαιοσύνην, righteousness_, or _justice._ This is the reading of the Syriac and the Latin Vulgate. The Complutensian, Royal, and...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 6:19. LAY NOT UP … LAY UP. An instance of “the idiom of exaggerated contrast.” A literal compliance with the negative half of this precept would discourage thrift, destroy com...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 6:1 _The_ _relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day _(_continued_);_ vide _Matthew 5:17, note. (_b_) Our Lord turns from cases which could be directly dedu...
Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on th...
1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16; 1 Timothy 6:17; 1 Timothy 6:8; Eccle
Lay not up treasures [μ η θ η σ α υ ρ ι ζ ε τ ε]. Lit., treasure not treasures. So Wyc., Do not treasure to you treasures. The beautiful legend of St. Thomas and Gondoforus is told by Mrs. Jameson (...
Lay not up for yourselves — Our Lord here makes a transition from religious to common actions, and warns us of another snare, the love of money, as inconsistent with purity of intention as the love of...
Observe here, 1. Something implied; namely, that every man has his treasure; and whatsoever or wheresover that treasure is, it is attractive, and draws the heart of men unto it: for every man's treasu...