Matthew 6:21
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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- Col 3:1-3 : 1 Exhortations to Seek the Things Above Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth, 3 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
- Prov 4:23 : 23 Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
- Luke 12:34 : 34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Rom 7:5-7 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code. 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.”
- 2 Cor 4:18 : 18 because we are not looking at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen. For what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen is eternal.
- Jer 4:14 : 14 “Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?
- Matt 12:34 : 34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
- Phlm 1:19 : 19 I, Paul, have written this letter with my own hand: I will repay it. I could also mention that you owe me your very self.
- Heb 3:12 : 12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.
- Jer 22:17 : 17 But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.
- Isa 33:6 : 6 He is your constant source of stability; he abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; he gives all this to those who fear him.
- Acts 8:21 : 21 You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God!
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- Luke 12:33-353 verses93%
33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves purses that do not wear out– a treasure in heaven that never decreases, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
34For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
35Call to Faithful Stewardship“Get dressed for service and keep your lamps burning;
- Matt 6:18-203 verses85%
18so that it will not be obvious to others when you are fasting, but only to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
19Lasting Treasure“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and devouring insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
20But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and devouring insect do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.
- Matt 6:22-265 verses79%
22“The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
23But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
24“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
25Do Not Worry“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing?
26Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are?
- Luke 12:21-222 verses77%
21So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”
22Exhortation Not to Worry Then Jesus said to his disciples,“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
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45The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.
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21Do not let them depart from your sight, guard them within your heart;
- Luke 11:34-352 verses72%
34Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased, your body is full of darkness.
35Therefore see to it that the light in you is not darkness.
- Matt 6:31-333 verses72%
31So then, don’t worry saying,‘What will we eat?’ or‘What will we drink?’ or‘What will we wear?’
32For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
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23Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
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31Instead, pursue his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.
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4so that your gift may be in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
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35The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.
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1Pure-hearted Giving“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.
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9Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
10For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.
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21Jesus said to him,“If you wish to be perfect, go sell your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
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6In the house of the righteous is abundant wealth, but the income of the wicked will be ruined.
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44Parables on the Kingdom of Heaven“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure, hidden in a field, that a person found and hid. Then because of joy he went and sold all that he had and bought that field.
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6But whenever you pray, go into your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
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15Then he said to them,“Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
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11If then you haven’t been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will entrust you with the true riches?
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7for he is like someone who has calculated the cost in his mind.“Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you;
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21nor will they say,‘Look, here it is!’ or‘There!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
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6Exhortation to Teach the Covenant Principles These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,
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21You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God!
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21For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
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21Bind them on your heart continually; fasten them around your neck.
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13No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
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19For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
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21As Jesus looked at him, he felt love for him and said,“You lack one thing. Go, sell whatever you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
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1The Widow’s Offering Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box.
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18Then he said,‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
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3Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!
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26Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;
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20Then he looked up at his disciples and said:“Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God belongs to you.
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6Making a fortune by a lying tongue is like a vapor driven back and forth; they seek death.
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28But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
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22When Jesus heard this, he said to him,“One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”