Matthew 6:21 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 6:21

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.

KJV

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

This must be understood not of money only, but of all our possessions. The god of a glutton is his belly; of a lover his lust; and so every man serves that to which he is in bondage; and has his heart there where his treasure is.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Verse 21) For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. This applies not only to money, but also to all passions and possessions. The stomach is the god of gluttons: there it has its heart, where its treasure is. The treasure of the luxurious is feasts. For the lascivious, it is playfulness; for the lover, it is desire. Everyone serves the one by whom he is conquered (2 Peter 2:19).

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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 treasure is below; a heavenly minded man shows that his treasure is above.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

There are three subjects brought before us in this part of our Lord’s sermon on the mount. These three are fasting, worldliness, and singleness of purpose in religion. Fasting, or occasional abstinence from food in order to bring the body into subjection to the spirit, is a practice frequently mentioned in the Bible, and generally in connection with prayer. David fasted when his child was sick; Daniel fasted when he sought special light from God; Paul and Barnabas fasted when they appointed elders; Esther fasted before going in to Ahasuerus.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅπου	hopou	Where	G3699 →
γάρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
θησαυρός	thēsauros	treasure	G2344 →
σου,	sou	of you [one]	G4771 →
ἐκεῖ	ekei	there	G1563 →
ἔσται	estai	will be	G1510 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
καρδία	kardia	heart	G2588 →
σου.¶	sou	of you [one].	G4771 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 4:23
Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
leads to
- Luke 6:45
  The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow…
- Matthew 12:34–35
  You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Mark 7:21–23
  For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
- Psalms 139:23–24
  Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
- Proverbs 13:3
  He who guards his mouth protects his life, but the one who opens his lips invites his own ruin.
Through
2 Corinthians 4:18
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 5:7
  For we walk by faith, not by sight.
- Romans 8:24–25
  For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?
- Hebrews 11:1
  Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see.