Matthew 6:21

Bible in Basic English

For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.

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.

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

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.

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 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. ²⁰ But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away: ²¹ For where your wealth is, there will your heart be. ²² The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light. ²³ But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be! ²⁴ No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

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 in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?

Job 40:20
He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.

Psalms 35:6
Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord.

Psalms 136:25
Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Psalms 145:16
By the opening of your hand, every living thing has its desire in full measure.

Psalms 147:9
He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.

Matthew 6:26
See the birds of heaven; they do not put seeds in the earth, they do not get in grain, or put it in store-houses; and your Father in heaven gives them food. Are you not of much more value 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.