Matthew 6:19

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Cross References (19)

  • Hebrews 13:5 (73)

    Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you

  • 1 John 2:15–16 (56)

    Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • Luke 12:21 (44)

    This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”

  • Proverbs 23:4–5 (39)

    Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.

  • Proverbs 16:16 (34)

    How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.

  • Proverbs 11:4 (34)

    Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

  • James 5:1–3 (34)

    Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.

  • 1 Timothy 6:17 (27)

    Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealt

  • Luke 18:22 (26)

    On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will h

  • 1 Timothy 6:8–10 (26)

    But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these.

  • Luke 12:33 (24)

    Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible trea

  • Ecclesiastes 5:10–14 (21)

    He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile

  • Zephaniah 1:18 (21)

    Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be

  • Psalms 62:10 (19)

    Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

  • Luke 18:24 (19)

    Seeing the man’s sadness, Jesus said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!

  • Psalms 39:6 (19)

    Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them

  • Matthew 19:21 (18)

    Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure i

  • Ecclesiastes 2:26 (16)

    To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of

  • Job 31:24 (15)

    If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,