Matthew 6:24
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.
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Study Note
Jesus' declaration 'no man can serve two masters' — developed in the specific opposition of God and Mammon — addresses the idolatry of wealth not as one sin among many but as the rival to total divine loyalty. The Aramaic 'Mammon' was not a demon's name in Second Temple Judaism but a word for wealth/property — Jesus personalizes it as a competing object of service to emphasize that financial concerns can function as a functional god. The logical structure (hate/love, hold/despise) captures the psychological reality that competing ultimate loyalties are not merely difficult to maintain simultaneously but produce destructive inner division. 1 Timothy 6:9-10 ('the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils') and Luke 16's rich man and Lazarus develop the same critique.
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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.
`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.
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.
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