Matthew 6:24 (KJV)

Words Then and Now

mammon riches; wealth as a master Still heard today: you cannot serve God and mammon, riches as a master Webster’s 1828 · Mammon

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

Evil of being worldly-mindedWorldly-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...

Thompson Chains

Half-heartednessSee the chain from 2 Kings 10:31 · 6 links
No NeutralitySee the chain from Matthew 12:30 · 4 links
IndecisionLink 4 of 6 · next James 1:9

Harmony of the Gospels

§ 41 The Sermon on the MountAlso Luke 6:20–49

Cross References

Luke 16:13 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.
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. …
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.
Luke 16:11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Galatians 1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
1 Timothy 6:9–10 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. …
2 Kings 17:33–34 They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence. …
Luke 16:9 And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
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.
Joshua 24:19–20 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. …
1 Samuel 7:3 And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
2 Kings 17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
Ezekiel 20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
Zephaniah 1:5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
Matthew 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
Romans 6:16–22 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? …
1 Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
2 Timothy 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

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Topics

Commandments Precepts of Jesus. explicitly stated, or implied in didactic discourse
Consistency General scriptures concerning
Covetousness General scriptures concerning
Decision Exhortation to
Hypocrisy General scriptures concerning
Indecision General scriptures concerning
Instability General scriptures concerning
Jesus, the Christ Delivers the “Sermon on the Mount” (in Galilee)
Mammon Wealth
Obedience General scriptures concerning
Religion True
Sermon Of Jesus, “on the mount,”

Timeline

Timeline of the BibleAbout AD 27–31 · The Ministry of Jesus Christ

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 man Οὐδεὶς Oudeis οὐδείς Pronoun · 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