Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse IX · §2 · John Wesley

God and mammon

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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. You cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24.

1771 text

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.

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The ninth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 6:24-34: no one can serve God and mammon, so take no anxious thought and seek first the kingdom of God.

EditionPrinted in Wesley's 1771 Works, which do not say when he preached it

Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

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Sermon 29 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:24-34.

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