Matthew 6:21
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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- Colossians 3:1–3Rank 1 from verse 21
1IF ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
1¶ If yee then bee risen with Christ, seeke those things which are aboue, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God:
2Set your ‖affection on things aboue, not on things on the earth.
3For yee are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- Luke 12:34Rank 2 from verse 21
- 2 Corinthians 4:18Rank 3 from verse 21
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.
18While we looke not at the things which are seene, but at y e things which are not seene: for the things which are seene, are temporall, but the things which are not seene, are eternall.
- Proverbs 4:23Rank 4 from verse 21
- Isaiah 33:6Rank 5 from verse 21
- Hebrews 3:12Rank 6 from verse 21
- Jeremiah 4:14Rank 7 from verse 21
- Matthew 12:34Rank 8 from verse 21
- Romans 7:5–7Rank 10 from verse 21
5For 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.
6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
5For when wee were in the flesh, the †motions of sinnes which were by the law, did worke in our members, to bring foorth fruit vnto death.
6But now wee are deliuered from the law, ‖that being dead wherein we were held, that we should serue in newnesse of spirit, and not in the oldnesse of the letter.
7What shall wee say then? is the law sinne? God forbid. Nay, I had not knowen sinne, but by the lawe: for I had not knowen ‖lust, except the Law had said, Thou shalt not couet.
- Jeremiah 22:17Rank 11 from verse 21
- Philemon 1:3Rank 12 from verse 21
- Philemon 1:19Rank 13 from verse 21
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Matthew 6:21
1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.
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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.
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Sense 1: Valuable things or provisions stored; a specially valued possession. Sense 2: An inward store from which something is brought forth.
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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.
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20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
20*But lay vp for your selues treasures in heauen, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, & where theeues doe not breake thorow, nor steale.
21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Selected passage22The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
22*The light of the body is the eye: If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shalbe full of light.