Matthew 6:21

Amplified Bible

for where your treasure is, there your heart [your wishes, your desires; that on which your life centers] will be also.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

King James Version (1611)
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

King James Version
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

English Standard Version
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

New American Standard Bible
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

New Century Version
Your heart will be where your treasure is.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Legacy Standard Bible
for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Berean Standard Bible
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Contemporary English Version
Your heart will always be where your treasure is.

Complete Jewish Bible
For where your wealth is, there your heart will be also.

Darby Translation
for where thy treasure is, there will be also thy heart.

Easy-to-Read Version
Your heart will be where your treasure is.

George Lamsa Translation
For where your treasure is, there also is your heart.

Good News Translation
For your heart will always be where your riches are.

Lexham English Bible
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Literal Translation
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

American Standard Version
for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.

Bible in Basic English
For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.

Hebrew Names Version
for where your treasure is, your heart will be there also.

International Standard Version
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Etheridge Translation
For where your treasure is, there also your hearts are.

Murdock Translation
For where your treasure is, there will your heart also be.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For, where your treasure is, there wyll your heart be also.

English Revised Version
for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.

World English Bible
for where your treasure is, your heart will be there also.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Weymouth's New Testament
For where your wealth is, there also will your heart be.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For where thi tresoure is, there also thin herte is.

Update Bible Version
for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Webster's Bible Translation
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

New English Translation
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

New King James Version
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

New Living Translation
Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.

New Life Bible
For wherever your riches are, your heart will be there also.

New Revised Standard
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
for, where, thy treasure, is, there, will be, thy heart also.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also.

Revised Standard Version
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For where soever youre treasure ys there will youre hertes be also.

Young's Literal Translation
for where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For where youre treasure is, there is youre herte also.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Whatever you long for the most is where your heart really is.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹"Do not store up for yourselves [material] treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal; ²¹for where your treasure is, there your heart [your wishes, your desires; that on which your life centers] will be also.²²"The eye is the lamp of the body; so if your eye is clear [spiritually perceptive], your whole body will be full of light [benefiting from God's precepts]. ²³"But if your eye is bad [spiritually blind], your whole body will be full of darkness [devoid of God's precepts]. So if the [very] light inside you [your inner self, your heart, your conscience] is darkness, how great and terrible is that darkness! ²⁴"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 mammon [money, possessions, fame, status, or whatever is valued more than the Lord].

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 provides prey for the raven When its young cry to God And wander about without food?

Job 40:20
"Surely the mountains bring him food, And all the wild animals play there.

Psalms 35:6
Let their way be dark and slippery, With the angel of the LORD pursuing and harassing them.

Psalms 136:25
Who gives food to all flesh, For His lovingkindness endures forever;

Psalms 145:16
You open Your hand And satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Psalms 147:9
He gives to the beast its food, And to the young ravens that for which they cry.

Matthew 6:26
"Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow [seed] nor reap [the harvest] nor gather [the crops] into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?

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.