For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Parallel translations
- WEB for where your treasure is, there your heart will 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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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 3:1–3If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
- Luke 12:34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- 2 Cor 4:18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- Prov 4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
- Isa 33:6And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.
- Heb 3:12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
- Jer 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
- Matt 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
- Acts 8:21Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
- Rom 7:5–7For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
- Jer 22:17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
- Phlm 1:3Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Phlm 1:19I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.
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