Luke 16:13
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
American King James Version (AKJV)
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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
American Standard Version (ASV)
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
Webster's Revision
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.
World English Bible
No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."
English Revised Version (ERV)
No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Definitions for Luke 16:13
Clarke's Luke 16:13 Bible Commentary
No servant can serve two masters - The heart will be either wholly taken up with God, or wholly engrossed with the world. See on Matthew 6:24 (note).
Barnes's Luke 16:13 Bible Commentary
See the notes at Matthew 6:24.
Wesley's Luke 16:13 Bible Commentary
16:13 And you cannot be faithful to God, if you trim between God and the world, if you do not serve him alone. Matthew 6:24 .