Matthew 6:24 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 6:24

No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

BSB

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ASV

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

Mammon—riches are so termed in Syriac. Let the covetous man who is called by the Christian name, hear this, that he cannot serve both Christ and riches. Yet He said not, he who has riches, but, he who is the servant of riches. For he who is the slave of money, guards his money as a slave; but he who has thrown off the yoke of his slavery, dispenses them as a master.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

No man can serve two masters,.... Whose orders are directly contrary to one another: otherwise, if they were the same, or agreed, both might be served; but this is rarely the case, and seldom done. This is a proverbial expression, and is elsewhere used by Christ, Luk 16:

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

No man can serve two masters - The master of our heart may be fitly termed the love that reigns in it. We serve that only which we love supremely. A man cannot be in perfect indifference betwixt two objects which are incompatible: he is inclined to despise and hate whatever he does not love supremely, when the necessity of a choice presents itself.

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

27 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Οὐδεὶς	Oudeis	No [one]	G3762 →
δύναται	dunatai	is able	G1410 →
δυσὶ	dusi	two	G1417 →
κυρίοις	kuriois	masters	G2962 →
δουλεύειν·	douleuein	to serve;	G1398 →
ἢ	ē	either	G2228 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ἕνα	hena	one	G1520 →
μισήσει	misēsei	he will hate	G3404 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ἕτερον	heteron	other	G2087 →
ἀγαπήσει	agapēsei	he will love	G25 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
ἑνὸς	henos	to [the] one	G1520 →
ἀνθέξεται	anthexetai	he will be devoted	G472 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
ἑτέρου	heterou	other	G2087 →
καταφρονήσει.	kataphronēsei	he will despise.	G2706 →
οὐ	ou	Not	G3756 →
δύνασθε	dunasthe	you are able	G1410 →
θεῷ	theō	God	G2316 →
δουλεύειν	douleuein	to serve	G1398 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
μαμωνᾷ.¶	mamōna	money.	G3126 →

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
James 4:4
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
leads to
- 1 John 2:15–16
  Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Romans 8:7
  because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- John 15:19
  If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
Through
Joshua 24:15
But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods…
leads to
- 1 Kings 18:21
  Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did…
- John 6:67–68
  So Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you want to leave too?”
- Ruth 1:15–16
  “Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
- Deuteronomy 29:18
  Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure…
- Ezekiel 20:39
  And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you…