Luke 16:13

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

No {G3762} servant {G3610} can {G1410} serve {G1398} two {G1417} masters {G2962}: for {G1063} either {G2228} he will hate {G3404} the one {G1520}, and {G2532} love {G25} the other {G2087}; or else {G2228} he will hold {G472} to the one {G1520}, and {G2532} despise {G2706} the other {G2087}. Ye cannot {G3756}{G1410} serve {G1398} God {G2316} and {G2532} mammon {G3126}.

No servant can be slave to two masters, for he will either hate the first and love the second, or scorn the second and be loyal to the first. You can’t be a slave to both God and money.”

No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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Cross-References

  • 1 John 2:15 (17 votes)

    Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • 1 John 2:16 (17 votes)

    For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

  • Matthew 6:24 (11 votes)

    No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

  • Luke 14:26 (9 votes)

    If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

  • James 4:4 (9 votes)

    Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

  • Romans 8:5 (9 votes)

    For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

  • Romans 8:8 (9 votes)

    So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.