Matthew 6:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ θησαυρίζετε ὑμῖν θησαυροὺς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ὅπου σὴς καὶ βρῶσις ἀφανίζει, καὶ ὅπου κλέπται διορύσσουσιν καὶ κλέπτουσιν:

Transliteration

Mē thēsaurizete to you thēsaurous upon the gēs, where sēs and brōsis aphanizei, and where kleptai dioryssousin and kleptousin:

Grammar Details

• *Mē thēsaurizete*: negative particle + present active imperative, 2nd plural - do not store up
• *thēsaurous*: accusative, masculine, plural - treasures
• *gēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - earth/land
• *sēs*: nominative, masculine, singular - moth
• *brōsis*: nominative, feminine, singular - rust/eating/corrosion
• *aphanizei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - destroys/consumes
• *kleptai*: nominative, masculine, plural - thieves
• *dioryssousin*: present active indicative, 3rd plural - break through/dig through
• *kleptousin*: present active indicative, 3rd plural - steal

Word Meanings

• *thēsaurizete*: store up/lay up/accumulate
• *thēsaurous*: treasures/wealth/stored valuables
• *gēs*: earth/land/ground/soil
• *sēs*: moth/cloth-eating insect
• *brōsis*: rust/eating/corrosion/consumption
• *aphanizei*: destroys/consumes/ruins
• *kleptai*: thieves/robbers
• *dioryssousin*: break through/dig through/burgle
• *kleptousin*: steal/take secretly/pilfer

Referenced Verses

• Heb 13:5 : 5 Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.
• Jas 5:1-3 : 1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.
• 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 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. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
• 1 Tim 6:8-9 : 8 but having food and covering we shall be therewith content. 9 But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which {G3713} some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• Luke 12:21 : 21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
• 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on {G2198} God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
• Eccl 5:10-14 : 10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding [of them] with his eyes? 12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. 13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt: 14 and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
• Prov 16:16 : 16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.
• Prov 23:4-5 : 4 Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For [riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
• Eccl 2:26 : 26 For to the man that pleaseth him [God] giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
• Zeph 1:18 : 18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all them that dwell in the land.
• Matt 19:21 : 21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell that which thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
• Job 31:24 : 24 If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, [Thou art] my confidence;
• Ps 39:6 : 6 [Surely every man] [walketh] [in a vain show;] [Surely they are disquieted] [in vain:] [He heapeth up] [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
• Ps 62:10 : 10 Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart [thereon].
• Prov 11:4 : 4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death.
• Luke 12:33 : 33 Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth.
• Luke 18:22 : 22 And when Jesus heard it, he said unto him, One thing thou lackest yet: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
• Luke 18:24 : 24 And Jesus seeing him said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!