For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Parallel translations
- WEB for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- KJV 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
Your heart follows wherever your treasure is. What you value most reveals and shapes your deepest loyalties.
Overview
This pithy saying explains the previous commands: our affections, priorities, and devotion inevitably attach to whatever we treasure. To store treasure in heaven is to fix the heart on God and his kingdom; to store it on earth is to be enslaved to perishing things. The verse calls for honest self-examination about what truly captures our love.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- 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.
- Luke 12:34For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- 2 Cor 4:18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
- Prov 4:23Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.
- Isa 33:6He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zion’s treasure.
- Heb 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
- Jer 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
- Matt 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Acts 8:21You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
- Rom 7:5–7For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
- Jer 22:17“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
- Phlm 1:3Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Phlm 1:19I, Paul, write this with my own hand. I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self.
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