Verse
Matthew 6:24 — No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and…
“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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The verses around Matthew 6:24.
22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24No 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.
25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Verse explanation
“Mammon” is an Aramaic word meaning wealth or material goods, sometimes used almost as if it were the name of a rival power competing for someone’s loyalty. The sentence does not treat money as wrong in itself, but describes how it demands the kind of devotion that should belong only to one central commitment in life.
From the Matthew 6 study in Bible in Stories.
Matthew 6:24 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
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.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
Ninguem pode servir a dois senhores; porque ou ha de odiar um e amar o outro, ou se dedicará a um e desprezará o outro. Não podeis servir a Deus e a Mammon.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
Ninguém pode servir a dois senhores; pois ou odiará um e amará outro; ou se apegará a um, e desprezará o outro. Não podeis servir a Deus e às riquezas.
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
Nadie puede servir a dos amos. Odiarán a uno y amarán al otro, o serán devotos a uno y despreciarán al otro. Ustedes no pueden servir a Dios y al dinero a la vez.
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