What are hidden treasures in the Bible?
What are hidden treasures in the Bible?
The clue is that the hidden treasure is found where wisdom and knowledge and understanding are found. If we seek and search the Scriptures, we will find wisdom and knowledge and understanding. It can be said that where wisdom is, knowledge and understanding are also there.
What did Jesus say would be where your treasure is?
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. The World English Bible translates the passage as: for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
What does Matthew 6 23 mean in the Bible?
This verse presents the opposite stating that an evil eye plunges one into darkness. The evil eye was both an expression for jealousy and for stinginess (cf. Matthew 20:15. The metaphor of light as holiness and darkness as evil is also found in the Qumran literature and in the Gospel of John.
What does Matthew 6 22 mean in the Bible?
full of light
This verse can thus mean one is “full of light” if one’s eye, i.e. conscience, is generous. By this interpretation the good spiritual eye is one that is generous and can perceive God, and thus allows illumination into the entire body.
What does the Bible say about treasures in heaven?
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: 19: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth. and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor.
What does Matthew 13 46 mean?
The Parable of the Pearl
The Parable of the Pearl (also called the Pearl of Great Price) is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in Matthew 13:45–46 and illustrates the great value of the Kingdom of Heaven. This is the penultimate parable in Matthew 13, coming just before the Parable of the Dragnet.
What does the Bible say about storing up treasures in heaven?