Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VIII · §21 · John Wesley

Your eye is evil

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Therefore lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. If you do, it is plain your eye is evil. It is not singly fixed on God. Matthew 6:19.

1771 text

9. Therefore lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. If you do, it is plain your eye is evil: it is not singly fixed on God.

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The eighth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 6:19-23: treasures on earth and in heaven, and the single eye of a pure intention.

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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 28 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:19-23.

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