Matthew 6:24
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God and Money. 24 [a]“No one can serve two masters.(A) He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Dependence on God.[b]
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Matthew 6:24
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24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.(A)
Luke 16:13
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13 No servant can serve two masters.[a] He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”(A)
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- 16:13 The third conclusion is a general statement about the incompatibility of serving God and being a slave to riches. To be dependent upon wealth is opposed to the teachings of Jesus who counseled complete dependence on the Father as one of the characteristics of the Christian disciple (Lk 12:22–39). God and mammon: see note on Lk 16:9. Mammon is used here as if it were itself a god.
Luke 16:13
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13 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”(A)
Romans 8:7
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7 For the concern of the flesh is hostility toward God; it does not submit to the law of God, nor can it;(A)
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Romans 8:7
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7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God;(A) it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
1 John 2:15-16
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15 Do not love the world or the things of the world.[a] If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.(A) 16 For all that is in the world, sensual lust,[b] enticement for the eyes, and a pretentious life, is not from the Father but is from the world.
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- 2:15 The world: all that is hostile toward God and alienated from him. Love of the world and love of God are thus mutually exclusive; cf. Jas 4:4.
- 2:16 Sensual lust: literally, “the lust of the flesh,” inordinate desire for physical gratification. Enticement for the eyes: literally, “the lust of the eyes,” avarice or covetousness; the eyes are regarded as the windows of the soul. Pretentious life: literally, “pride of life,” arrogance or ostentation in one’s earthly style of life that reflects a willful independence from God and others.
1 John 2:15-16
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On Not Loving the World
15 Do not love the world or anything in the world.(A) If anyone loves the world, love for the Father[a] is not in them.(B) 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh,(C) the lust of the eyes,(D) and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
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- 1 John 2:15 Or world, the Father’s love
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