King James Version
Matthew 6:21 in the King James Version says “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” — study this verse from Matthew chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Matthew 6:21 · KJV
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
KJV Study — Public Domain
“For”
G1063properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
“also”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“heart”
G2588the heart, i.e., (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle
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