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Selected Verse: Luke 12:33 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Lu 12:33 |
King James |
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Sell, &c.--This is but a more vivid expression of Mat 6:19-21 (see on Mat 6:19-21). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Sell that ye have - Sell your property. Exchange it for that which you can use in distributing charity. This was the condition of their being disciples. Their property they gave up; they forsook it, or they put it into common stock, for the sake of giving alms to the poor, Act 2:44; Act 4:32; Joh 12:6; Act 5:2.
Bags which wax not old - The word "bags," here, means "purses," or the bags attached to their girdles, in which they carried their money. See the notes at Mat 5:38. By bags which wax not old Jesus means that we should lay up treasure in heaven; that our aim should be to be prepared to enter there, where all our wants will be forever provided for. Purses, here, grow old and useless. Wealth takes to itself wings. Riches are easily scattered, or we must soon leave them; but that wealth which is in heaven abides forever. It never is corrupted; never flies away; never is to be left.
Wax - This word is from an old Saxon word, and in the Bible means to "grow." |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Bags (βαλλάντια)
From βάλλω, to throw. Something into which money and other things are cast. Rev., purses. See on Luk 10:4 :. Wyc., satchels.
Moth
Compare Jam 5:2. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Sell what ye have - This is a direction, not given to all the multitude: (much less is it a standing rule for all Christians:) neither to the apostles; for they had nothing to sell, having left all before: but to his other disciples, (mentioned Luk 12:22, and Act 1:15,) especially to the seventy, that they might be free from all worldly entanglements. Mat 6:19. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Sell that ye have - Dispose of your goods. Be not like the foolish man already mentioned, who laid up the produce of his fields, without permitting the poor to partake of God's bounty: turn the fruits of your fields (which are beyond what you need for your own support) into money, and give it in alms; and the treasure thus laid out, shall be as laid up for yourselves and families in heaven. This purse shall not grow old, and this treasure shill not decay. Ye shall by and by find both the place where you laid up the treasure, and the treasure itself in the place; for he who hath pity on the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and he may rest assured, that whatever, for Christ's sake, he thus lays out, it will be paid him again. |
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.
6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.