No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. The impossibility of dual service: two masters make incompatible demands, and the servant who tries to satisfy both will inevitably favor one over the other. The word is mammon — Aramaic for wealth or property, treated here as a personified rival to God. Luke 16:13 records the same teaching with the added context of the Parable of the Dishonest Manager. The either/or is not between wealth and poverty but between wealth as master and God as master: wealth as servant is fine; wealth as master is the rival deity that displaces God. 1 Timothy 6:10 says the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils.

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