You cannot serve God and mammon

Cultural  

1. Being virtuous is not compatible with being greedy (mammon means “money”). This is a saying of Jesus in the Gospels. It explains, “No man can serve two masters (see also No man can serve two masters).”

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Example Sentences

You cannot serve God and mammon: had he not entered into the services of mammon, and been held there by the rich rewards?

From A Girl of the Klondike by Cross, Victoria

Peter remembered that he had read in his little leather Bible, "You cannot serve God and mammon."

From The Boy Grew Older by Broun, Heywood