Matthew 6:21
What meaning of the matthew 6:21 in the Bible?
What does Matthew 6:21 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
What does Matthew 6:21 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
Verse Matthew 6:21. _WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS_] If God be the treasure of our souls, our hearts, i.e. our affections and desires will be placed on things _above_. An earthly minded man proves that his t...
LAY UP FOR YOURSELVES TREASURES IN HEAVEN - That is, have provision made for your eternal felicity. Do not exhaust your strength and spend your days in providing for the life here, but let your chief...
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...
HEART BE ALSO. heart also be....
_where your treasure is_ The words gain point if we think of the hoards buried in the _earth_....
ΣΟΥ is rightly restored for ὑμῶν. The sing. individualises the action. 21. ὍΠΟΥ … Ὁ ΘΗΣΑΥΡΌΣ. The words gain point if we think of the hoards buried in the _earth_....
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...
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...
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, [THAT WHICH YE VALUE MOST], THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO. [`Thy treasure-thy heart' is probably the true read...
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 f...
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 s...
WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS. — The words imply the truth, afterwards more definitely asserted, that it is impossible to “serve God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24). Men may try to persuade themselves that they w...
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...
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...
_CHOOSING THE BEST_ ‘Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.’ Matthew 6:21 This is the _ reason_ which our Lord gives for the precepts which go immediately before. And our hearts re-...
21._Where your treasure shall be _By this statement Christ proves that they are unhappy men who have their treasures laid up on the earth: because their happiness is uncertain and of short duration. C...
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...
FOR WHERE YOUR TREASURE IS, THERE WILL YOUR HEART BE ALSO. This seems to be a proverbial expression, and contains in it another reason, dissuading from worldly mindedness; because of the danger the he...
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Ver. 21. _For where your treasure is, &c._] _i.e._ Where your chief happiness is, there your affections will be settled: where the carcase i...
_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...
The only safe treasures:...
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...
Ver. 19-21. A TREASURE (according to the notation of the word) signifieth something laid up for tomorrow, for future time; more largely it signifieth any riches, or what we judge a valuable portion. M...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII commandments, preferring these things from believing them to exist. "For where any one's mind is, there also is his treasure."[118] Tertullian Ad Martyras Th...
Matthew 6:21 For G1063 where G3699 your G5216 treasure G2344 is G2076 (G5748) there G1563 your G5216 heart G2588 be G2071 (G5704) also G2532 where - Isaiah 33:6; Luke 12:34; 2 Corinthians 4:18
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...
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...
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, n...
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 relations...
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...
FOR YOUR HEART WILL ALWAYS BE. This is a universal truth. The thing which you value the most will be the center of your attention. If your wealth is in heaven, your mind will always be looking up to G...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:21 Throughout Scripture, the HEART refers to the center of one’s being. It includes one’s emotions, reason, and will. See note on Prov. 4:20–23. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document....
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 co...
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...
2 Corinthians 4:18; Acts 8:21; Colossians 3:1; Hebrews 3:12; Isaiah 33:6; Jeremiah 22:17; Jeremiah 4:14; Luke 12:34; Matthew 12:34; P
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