Luke 16:13
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“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.”
κύριος
Lord, master, owner. Kurios. Jesus is Lord. The foundational confession of Christianity. Lord means owner. To confess Jesus as Lord is to surrender ownership of your life.
θεός
God
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θεός
God. Theos. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The ultimate reality. The source of all existence. Personal knowable and present.
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μαμμωνᾶς
money.
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μαμμωνᾶς
Mammon, wealth, material possessions. Mamonas. You cannot serve God and mammon. Mammon is not just money. It is the spirit that makes money your security instead of God.
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δουλεύω
to serve
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δουλεύω
To serve as a slave, to be enslaved. Douleuo. No one can serve two masters. Divided loyalty destroys effectiveness. Choose who you will serve and serve wholeheartedly.
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μισέω
he will hate
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μισέω
To hate, to detest, to dislike strongly. Hate what is evil and cling to what is good. Not everything deserves equal treatment. Some things must be rejected.
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οὐδείς
No
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οὐδείς
No one, nothing, none. No one can snatch them out of My hand. The security of the believer rests not in their grip but in His. And His grip never fails.
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δύναμαι
is able to
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δύναμαι
To be able, to have power, to be capable. Dunamai. With God all things are possible. The limit of what is possible is not human ability but divine will.
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οἰκέτης
servant
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οἰκέτης
a fellow resident, i.e. menial domestic
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ἤ
either
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ἤ
disjunctive, or; comparative, than
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καταφρονέω
he will despise.
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καταφρονέω
to think against, i.e. disesteem
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ἕτερος
other
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ἕτερος
(an-, the) other or different
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