Mat 6:24-25, 13:22, Mar 4:19, Luk 8:7, 16:13, 17:26-30, 18:24-25, 21:34 | ESV | STEP | No one can serve two masters , for 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 God and money .

m[See ver. 9 above]

n Gen. 6:5; 7:7; Matt. 24:37; [1 Thess. 5:3]

o Heb. 11:7; 1 Pet. 3:20; 2 Pet. 2:5

p Matt. 24:38, 39

q 2 Pet. 2:7

r Gen. 19:16, 24; 2 Pet. 2:6

s 1 Cor. 1:7; 2 Thess. 1:7; 1 Pet. 1:7, 13; 4:13; [Matt. 16:27; 24:44]

t[1 Cor. 1:26]; See Matt. 13:22

uSee Matt. 12:28

v[See ver. 24 above]

w[Rom. 13:13; 1 Thess. 5:6, 7; 1 Pet. 4:7]

x James 5:5

y[Matt. 13:22]

z 1 Thess. 5:3, 4; [ch. 12:40]

aa Eccles. 9:12; Isa. 24:17

Matthew 6:24-25

24 ^a“No one can serve two masters, for 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 God and ^bmoney. ^{▼▼Greek mammon, a Semitic word for money or possessions}

Do Not Be Anxious

25 ^d“Therefore I tell you, ^edo not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Matthew 13:22

22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but ^fthe cares of ^gthe world and ^hthe deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

Mark 4:19

19 but ⁱthe cares of ^jthe world and ^kthe deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful.

Luke 8:7

7 And some fell among ^lthorns, and the thorns grew up with it and choked it.

Luke 16:13

13 ^mNo servant can serve two masters, for 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 God and money.”

Luke 17:26-30

26 ⁿJust as it was in the days of ^oNoah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 ^pThey were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, just as it was in the days of ^qLot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29 ^rbut on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— 30 so will it be ^son the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

Luke 18:24-25

24 Jesus, seeing that he had become sad, said, ^t“How difficult it is for those who have wealth to enter ^uthe kingdom of God! 25 For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter ^vthe kingdom of God.”

Luke 21:34

Watch Yourselves

34 “But watch yourselves ^wlest ^xyour hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and ^ycares of this life, and ^zthat day come upon you suddenly ^aalike a trap.