For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Parallel translations
- WEB For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- KJV For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- ESV For where your treasure is, there will your heart 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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Quick answer
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. What we truly value reveals and shapes the direction of our hearts.
Overview
Jesus exposes the deep link between our possessions and our affections: our treasure draws our heart after it. Investing in heavenly things cultivates a heart oriented toward God and His kingdom. This searching principle calls believers to examine what they truly love and to set their hearts on Christ above all.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Matt 6:21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Col 3:1–3Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
- Phil 3:20But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
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