King James Version (KJV)
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 the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.›”
Verse in context — Luke 16
‹If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true› [riches]?
‹And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?›
‹No servant 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.›
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
And he said unto them, ‹Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.›
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