Matthew 6:19–21
Jesus: where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
Study it word by word19“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and woodworm destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal;
20but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor woodworm destroys, and where thieves do not dig through or steal;
21for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
In its context
17But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
18so that you may not appear to people as fasting, but to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.
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22“The lamp of the body is the eye. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light;
23but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
Its words in the original
- θησαυρίζετεthēsaurizete· store up
Store up, lay up treasure, keep.
- θησαυροὺςthēsaurous· treasure
Treasure; a storehouse or chest where something of value is kept.
- γῆςgēs· earth, land
Earth: the ground, a country, or the whole world.
- ὅπουhopou· where
Where, wherever.
- σὴςsēs· moth
Moth, the insect that eats clothes.
- βρῶσιςbrōsis· food, eating
Eating; food, nourishment. In Matthew 6:19-20, what eats things away: moth or rust.
- ἀφανίζειaphanizei· destroy, disfigure
Make disappear, destroy; disfigure; in the passive, vanish.
- κλέπταιkleptai· thief
Thief.
- διορύσσουσινdioryssousin· break in
Break in, dig through a wall to steal.
- κλέπτουσινkleptousin· steal
Steal.
- οὐρανῷouranōi· heaven, sky
Heaven: the sky and, above all, the place of God. "The heavens" is sometimes a respectful way of saying "God".
- οὔτεoute· neither, nor
Neither, nor.
- ἐστινestin· be
Be, exist.
- καρδίαkardia· heart
Heart: the center of the person, where one thinks, feels and decides.