For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Parallel translations
- KJV For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- BSB For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- NKJV For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- NASB For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- NLT Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.
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Cross-references · 3
- Matt 6:21for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Col 3:1–3If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
- Phil 3:20For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
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