Bible Verses About Serving Two Masters
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for serving two masters, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,450 votes, led by Matthew 6:24. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Serving Two Masters
Matthew 6:24241 votes
No man 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.
Luke 16:13192 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 10:2179 votes
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.
Psalms 45:773 votes
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
2 Corinthians 6:1463 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Deuteronomy 6:562 votes
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Joshua 24:1558 votes
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Romans 12:255 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
John 10:3050 votes
I and my Father are one.
Deuteronomy 4:2448 votes
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
John 18:647 votes
As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
John 1:143 votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Romans 12:1139 votes
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Galatians 5:1338 votes
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Mark 10:4535 votes
For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
John 12:2634 votes
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Romans 6:1634 votes
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Hebrews 6:1034 votes
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
James 4:434 votes
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Matthew 6:3331 votes
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 6:1-3430 votes
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 6:2528 votes
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Luke 16:928 votes
And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.
Hebrews 9:1428 votes
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Joshua 22:526 votes
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
What does the Bible say about serving two masters?
Readers most often cite Matthew 6:24 on the subject of serving two masters. Across 2,450 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Luke 16:13, 1 Corinthians 10:21, Psalms 45:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.