11 translations · Greek
Matthew 6:24
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
Matthew 6:24 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
- KJV King James Version
- No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- No one can serve two masters: 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 both God and money.
- ASV American Standard Version
- No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; you are not able to serve God and wealth.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- No one can serve two masters. Either you'll hate one and love the other, or you'll be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Money.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- 'None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.
- DBY Darby Translation
- No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Οὐδεὶς | Oudeis | No one | G3762 οὐδείς none |
| δύναται | dynatai | can | G1410 δύναμαι be able |
| δυσὶ | dysi | two | G1417 δύο two |
| κυρίοις | kyriois | masters | G2962 κύριος lord: God |
| δουλεύειν | douleuein | serve | G1398 δουλεύω be a slave |
| ἢ | ē | Either | G2228 ἤ or |
| γὰρ | gar | — | G1063 γάρ for |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἕνα | hena | one | G1520 εἷς one |
| μισήσει | misēsei | he will hate | G3404 μισέω to hate |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἕτερον | heteron | other | G2087 ἕτερος other |
| ἀγαπήσει | agapēsei | love | G25 ἀγαπάω to love |
| ἢ | ē | or | G2228 ἤ or |
| ἑνὸς | henos | [the] one | G1520 εἷς one |
| ἀνθέξεται | anthexetai | he will be devoted to | G472 ἀντέχω to cling to |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| τοῦ | tou | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἑτέρου | heterou | other | G2087 ἕτερος other |
| καταφρονήσει | kataphronēsei | despise | G2706 καταφρονέω to despise |
| οὐ | ou | — | G3756 οὐ no |
| δύνασθε | dynasthe | You cannot | G1410 δύναμαι be able |
| Θεῷ | Theō | God | G2316 θεός God |
| δουλεύειν | douleuein | serve [both] | G1398 δουλεύω be a slave |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 καί and |
| μαμωνᾷ | mamōna | money | G3126 μαμμωνᾶς wealth |
Related verses
- 1 John 2:15–16
Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
- Luke 16:13
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren’t able to serve God and Mammon.”
- James 4:4
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
- 1 Timothy 6:9–10
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
- Joshua 24:15
If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
- Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
- Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”
- Romans 6:16–22
Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered. Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness. …
- Luke 16:11
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
- 1 Kings 18:21
Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
25 Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26 See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
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Edition and source notes
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Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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