Matthew 6:24

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

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  • Luke 16:13 : 13 No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
  • 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them. 16 For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world.
  • Jas 4:4 : 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
  • Luke 16:11 : 11 So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 For am I now trying to win the approval of people, or of God? Or am I striving to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
  • Luke 16:9 : 9 And I tell you, make friends for yourselves using worldly wealth so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.
  • 2 Kgs 17:33-34 : 33 They feared the Lord, but they also served their own gods according to the practices of the nations from which they had been deported. 34 To this day they continue to practice their former customs. They neither fear the Lord nor follow the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 But if it seems undesirable to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve—whether the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.
  • Josh 24:19-20 : 19 Joshua said to the people, "You are not able to serve the LORD. He is a holy God; He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. 20 If you abandon the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring harm to you and destroy you, after He has been good to you.
  • 1 Sam 7:3 : 3 Then Samuel said to the whole house of Israel, 'If you are truly returning to the LORD with all your heart, rid yourselves of the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth among you. Commit your hearts to the LORD and worship Him only, and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.'
  • 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 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 said nothing.
  • 2 Kgs 17:41 : 41 So these nations feared the Lord, but they also served their carved images. Their children and grandchildren continued to do as their fathers did, even to this day.
  • Ezek 20:39 : 39 As for you, house of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you! But afterward, you will surely listen to me and no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and idols.
  • Zeph 1:5 : 5 I will also cut off those who bow in worship on the rooftops to the starry host, those who bow and swear by the Lord but also swear by Milcom.
  • Matt 4:10 : 10 Then Jesus said to him, 'Go away, Satan! For it is written: You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only shall you serve.'
  • Rom 6:16-22 : 16 Do you not know that if you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18 Having been set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness. 21 But what fruit did you produce then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death. 22 But now, having been freed from sin and bound to God, you have your fruit, which leads to sanctification—and the outcome is eternal life.
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be arrogant or to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides us with all things to enjoy.
  • 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 For Demas has deserted me, having loved this present world, and has gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

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