The Text of Matth 6.24

Οὐδεὶς δύναται δυσὶ κυρίοις δουλεύειν· ἢ γὰρ τὸν ἕνα μισήσει καὶ τὸν ἕτερον ἀγαπήσει, ἢ ἑνὸς ἀνθέξεται καὶ τοῦ ἑτέρου καταφρονήσει. οὐ δύνασθε θεῷ δουλεύειν καὶ μαμωνᾷ.

No one can be a slave for two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will cling to the one and look down on the other. You cannot be a slave for God and for money.

Søren Kierkegaard:

“No one will be able to say, ‘God and mammon, they are not so unconditionally different—they can both be combined in the choice’—because this is to refrain from choosing. When there is a choice between the two, then to want to choose both is ‘to one’s own destruction to shrink from’ choosing. No one will be able to say, ‘One can choose a little mammon and then God also.’”

Jonathan Pennington:

“Choosing between God’s kingdom and the goods of the world is not merely a matter of cool thinking; as in all ways of being in the world, it is ultimately a matter of the heart or inner person. As in Jesus’s previous teachings in the Sermon, the ante has been upped; one cannot flirt with money as if it has nothing to do with one’s inner person. As the proverbial wisdom has it, ‘the love of money is the root of all evil’ (1 Tim. 6:10).”