Do not carry any gold or silver or copper in your belts.
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t take any gold, silver, or brass in your money belts.
- KJV Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
- ESV Acquire no gold or silver or copper for your belts,
- NKJV Provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your money belts,
- NASB Do not acquire gold, or silver, or copper for your money belts,
- NLT “Don’t take any money in your money belts—no gold, silver, or even copper coins.
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Quick answer
Jesus tells the Twelve not to carry money for their preaching mission. They are to trust God to supply their needs through those who receive them.
Overview
As Jesus sends out the Twelve, He forbids them to pack provisions of gold, silver, or copper. The instruction trains them in dependence on God and on the hospitality of those who welcome the gospel. This radical trust models the priority of the kingdom over earthly security and anticipates the church's later support of its ministers.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Luke 22:35Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you out without purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered.
- Luke 9:3–5“Take nothing for the journey,” He told them, “no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no second tunic.
- Mark 6:8–11He instructed them to take nothing but a staff for the journey—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts—
- Luke 10:4–12Carry no purse or bag or sandals. Do not greet anyone along the road.
- 1 Cor 9:7–27Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not drink of its milk?
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