Luke 12:34 (DRB)

Passage

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Nearby Context

Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock, for it hath pleased your Father to give you a kingdom.

Luke 12:33 Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

Luke 12:34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Luke 12:35 Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands.

Luke 12:36 And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "where", "treasure", and "heart". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "where" and "treasure", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 33's "Sell what you possess and give alms..." into verse 35's "Let your loins be girt and lamps...", so "where" and "treasure" belong inside that flow. In Luke context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "where" and "treasure" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.