Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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19 Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal.
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“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
20 But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal.
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But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
21 For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also.
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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22 The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be lightsome.
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“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,your whole body will be full of light.
23 But if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall be darksome. If then the light that is in thee, be darkness: the darkness itself how great shall it be!
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But if your eyes are unhealthy,your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 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.
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“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
25 Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?
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“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
26 Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?
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Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27 And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit?
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Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin.
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“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
29 But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.
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Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
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