马太福音 6:21

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你的財寶在哪裡，你的心也在哪裡。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 你 的 财 宝 在 那 里 ， 你 的 心 也 在 那 里 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁹ "Don't store treasures for yourselves here on earth where moths and rust will destroy them and thieves can break in and steal them. ²⁰ But store your treasures in heaven where they cannot be destroyed by moths or rust and where thieves cannot break in and steal them. ²¹ Your heart will be where your treasure is. ²² "The eye is a light for the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. ²³ But if your eyes are evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. And if the only light you have is really darkness, then you have the worst darkness. ²⁴ "No one can serve two masters. The person will hate one master and love the other, or will follow one master and refuse to follow the other. You cannot serve both God and worldly riches.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

where: Isaiah 33:6, Luke 12:34, 2 Corinthians 4:18

there: Matthew 12:34, Proverbs 4:23, Jeremiah 4:14, Jeremiah 22:17, Acts 8:21, Romans 7:5-7, Philemon 1:3, Philemon 1:19, Colossians 3:1-3, Hebrews 3:12

Reciprocal: Matthew 13:44 - like

Cross-References

Job 38:41
Who gives food to the birds when their young cry out to God and wander about without food?

Job 40:20
The hills, where the wild animals play, provide food for it.

Psalms 35:6
Let their road be dark and slippery as the angel of the Lord chases them.

Psalms 136:25
He gives food to every living creature. His love continues forever.

Psalms 145:16
You open your hand, and you satisfy all living things.

Psalms 147:9
He gives food to cattle and to the little birds that call.

Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds in the air. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. This seems to be a proverbial expression, and contains in it another reason, dissuading from worldly mindedness; because of the danger the heart is in of being ensnared and ruined thereby: and the sense of it is, if your treasure is on earth, and lies in earthly things, your hearts will be set upon them, and be in them, in your bags, your coffers and storehouses; and so your souls will be in danger of being lost; which loss will be an irreparable one, though you should gain the whole world. But if your treasure is put into the hands of God, your hearts will be with him, and be settled on him; your desires will be after heavenly things; your affections will be set on things above; your conversation will be in heaven, whilst you are on earth; and that will be the place and seat of your happiness, to all eternity.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven - That is, have provision made for your eternal felicity. Do not exhaust your strength and spend your days in providing for the life here, but let your chief anxiety be to be prepared for eternity. Compare the notes at Isaiah 55:2. In heaven nothing corrupts; nothing terminates; no enemies plunder or destroy. To have treasure in heaven is to possess evidence that its purity and joys will be ours. It is to be heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away, 1 Peter 1:4. The heart, or affections, will of course be fixed on the treasure. To regulate the heart, it is therefore important that the treasure, or object of attachment, should be right.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 6:21. Where your treasure is — If God be the treasure of our souls, our hearts, i.e. our affections and desires will be placed on things above. An earthly minded man proves that his treasure is below; a heavenly minded man shows that his treasure is above.