No man can serve two masters

¹ Cultural  

1. One's loyalties must be undivided. This is a saying of Jesus from the Gospels. Jesus goes on to say, “You cannot serve God and mammon” — that is, God and money.

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No man can serve two masters ² Cultural  

1. A saying of Jesus. The complete passage reads, “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.”

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No man can serve two masters

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. 

From What to Do? by Isabel Florence Hapgood

It is written, "No man can serve two masters, and thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."

From Mediaeval Tales by Henry Morley

"No man can serve two masters," is as full and true and strong upon the side of encouragement as of rebuke.

From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

"No man can serve two masters, for either he must hate the one and love the other, or else he must hold to the one and despise the other."

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond

Christ knew that one affection rules in man's life when he said, "No man can serve two masters."

From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Orison Swett Marden

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