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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Example Sentences

Warnock communications director Terrence Clark said the 2011 sermon was “based on a biblical verse that reads ‘No man can serve two masters … Ye cannot serve God and mammon,’ a biblical term for wealth.”

From Washington Times

The Book of Matthew counsels that “no man can serve two masters.”

From Forbes

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

From Project Gutenberg

But no man can serve two masters.

From Project Gutenberg

But, if my learned friend means to assert that there are, under the Government of the United States, according to its form and method of organic operation, two equal sovereigns over every citizen on the same subjects, why then he has flown in the face of a fundamental proposition, coming from higher authority than the Convention of 1790—that no man can serve two masters.

From Project Gutenberg