Luke 16:13 KJV

No servant 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.

Words Then and Now

What these words mean in the King James Bible, and where you’ll still hear them today.

Thou and Ye

  • ye more than one

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

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Harmony of the Gospels

Cross References

  • 1 John 2:15–16 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. …
  • Matthew 6:24 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.
  • James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
  • Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
  • Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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Topics

  • Consistency General scriptures concerning
  • Decision Exhortation to
  • Hypocrisy General scriptures concerning
  • Jesus, the Christ Enunciates the parables of the lost sheep, of the lost piece of silver, of the prodigal son, and of the unjust steward (in Peraea)
  • Mammon Wealth

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Bible Dictionary

  • God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...

Greek and Strong’s

  • No Οὐδεὶς Oudeis οὐδείς Article · nominative masculine singular
  • servant οἰκέτης oiketēs οἰκέτης Noun · nominative masculine singular
  • can δύναται dynatai δύναμαι Verb · present middle indicative, third person singular
  • serve δουλεύειν douleuein δουλεύω Verb · present active infinitive
  • two δυσὶ dysi δύο Article · dative masculine plural
  • masters κυρίοις kyriois κύριος Noun · dative masculine plural
  • for γὰρ gar γάρ Conjunction
  • either ἢ ē ἤ Conjunction
  • he will hate μισήσει misēsei μισέω Verb · future active indicative, third person singular
  • the one τὸν ton Article · accusative masculine singular ἕνα hena εἷς Adjective · accusative masculine singular
  • and καὶ kai καί Conjunction
  • love ἀγαπήσει agapēsei ἀγαπάω Verb · future active indicative, third person singular
  • the other τὸν ton Article · accusative masculine singular ἕτερον heteron ἕτερος Pronoun · accusative masculine singular
  • or else ἢ ē ἤ Conjunction
  • he will hold ἀνθέξεται anthexetai ἀντέχομαι Verb · future middle indicative, third person singular
  • to the one ἑνὸς henos εἷς Adjective · genitive masculine singular
  • and καὶ kai καί Conjunction
  • despise καταφρονήσει kataphronēsei καταφρονέω Verb · future active indicative, third person singular
  • the other τοῦ tou Article · genitive masculine singular ἑτέρου heterou ἕτερος Pronoun · genitive masculine singular
  • Ye cannot Οὐ Ou οὐ Adverb δύνασθε dynasthe δύναμαι Verb · present middle indicative, second person plural
  • serve δουλεύειν douleuein δουλεύω Verb · present active infinitive
  • God Θεῷ Theō θεός Noun · dative masculine singular
  • and καὶ kai καί Conjunction
  • mammon μαμωνᾷ mamōna μαμμωνᾶς Noun · dative masculine singular

Greek: KJTR, Alan Bunning, CNTR · CC BY 4.0

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