Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
"Stop storing up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
A Conservative Version
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,
American Standard Version
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
Amplified
An Understandable Version
"Do not store your valuables [here] on earth, where moths can eat them and where rust can corrode them, and where burglars can break in and steal [them].
Anderson New Testament
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal.
Bible in Basic English
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
Common New Testament
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
Daniel Mace New Testament
Lay not up for your selves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
Darby Translation
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;
Godbey New Testament
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and thieves break through and steal:
Goodspeed New Testament
"Do not store up your riches on earth, where moths and rust destroy them, and where thieves break in and steal them,
John Wesley New Testament
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break thro' and steal:
Julia Smith Translation
Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal:
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
Modern King James verseion
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"See that ye gather not treasure together upon the earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Moffatt New Testament
Store up no treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust corrode, where thieves break in and steal:
Montgomery New Testament
"Store up for yourselves no treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
NET Bible
"Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
New Heart English Bible
"Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Noyes New Testament
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where the moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Sawyer New Testament
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where a moth and corrosion destroy, and where thieves dig through and steal.
The Emphasized Bible
Be not laying up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where, moth and rust, do tarnish, and where, thieves, dig through and steal;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where the rust and canker spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal:
Twentieth Century New Testament
Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Webster
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Weymouth New Testament
"Do not lay up stores of wealth for yourselves on earth, where the moth and wear-and-tear destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Williams New Testament
"Stop storing up your riches on earth where moths and rust make away with them, and where thieves break in and steal them.
World English Bible
"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
Worrell New Testament
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through, and steal;
Worsley New Testament
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupts, and where thieves break through and steal:
Youngs Literal Translation
'Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,
Themes
Accumulation of wealth » The accumulation of, disappointing
Heart » Where your heart will be
Moths » Destructive to garments
Pilgrims and strangers » As saints they » Should have their treasure in heaven
Repression of evil » Seven evils to be repressed » greed
Riches » Heavenly treasures superior to
Riches » They who possess, should » Not hoard them up
Riches » Described as » Liable to be stolen
earthly Riches » The perils of » The accumulation of, disappointing
Seven » Evils to be repressed » greed
Theft » All earthly treasure exposed to
Treasure » A thing of highly-estimated value » Jesus forbids the hoarding of
Wealth » Accumulation of » The accumulation of, disappointing
Worldliness » Seen in the tendency to imitate worldly customs, etc » Unprofitable
Interlinear
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Usage: 42
Devotionals
Devotionals about Matthew 6:19
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 6:19
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Verse Info
Context Readings
The Sermon On The Mount: Treasure In Heaven
18 That you appear not unto men to fast, but unto your Father who is in secret: and your Father, who sees in secret, shall reward you openly. 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
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Cross References
Hebrews 13:5
Let your conduct be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
Luke 12:21
So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge them that are rich in this present age, that they be not haughty, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;
Job 31:24
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;
Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
Psalm 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and hope not vainly in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Proverbs 11:4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 16:16
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Proverbs 23:4-5
Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 5:10-14
He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Matthew 19:21
Jesus said unto him, If you will be perfect, go and sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
Luke 12:33
Sell what you have, and give alms; provide yourselves purses which grow not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts.
Luke 18:22
Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet you lack one thing: sell all that you have, and distribute unto the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Luke 18:24
And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hard it is for those that have riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
1 Timothy 6:8-10
And having food and clothing let us be with these things content.
James 5:1-3
Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
1 John 2:15-16
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.