Matthew 6:21

Simplified Cowboy Version

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

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.

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.

Contextual Overview

¹⁹"Don't buy a bunch of saddles and tradin' spurs here on earth so that people will think highly of you. The saddles will eventually rot and the spurs will rust if someone doesn't break into your barn and steal 'em first. ²⁰Shoot for the great things of heaven, where there is no rot and thieves can't break in. ²¹Whatever you long for the most is where your heart really is. ²²"Your eye is like the lantern of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body (or the barn in this case) is filled with light. ²³But when your eyes are bad, the whole barn is filled with darkness. ²⁴If you mistake darkness for the light, you have a mighty dark barn my friend. You can't live in the dark and the light at the same time. You'll love one and hate the other.

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

Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds. They don't have a herd of cattle to butcher for beef or a garden to pick vegetables for canning, but the Boss provides for them every day. You mean a lot more to him than little birds do.

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.