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John Gill
No man can serve two masters,.... Whose orders are directly contrary to one another: otherwise, if they were the same, or agreed, both might be served; but this is rarely the case, and seldom done. This is a proverbial expression, and is elsewhere used by Christ, Lu 16:13. The Jews have sayings pretty much like it, and of the same sense as when they say (w), "we have not found that כל אדם זוכה...
Matthew Henry
Christ having, in the former chapter, armed his disciples against the corrupt doctrines and opinions of the scribes and Pharisees, especially in their expositions of the law (that was called their leaven, ch. xvi. 12), comes in this chapter to warn them against their corrupt practices, against the two sins which, though in their doctrine they did not justify, yet in their conversation they were...
Charles H. Spurgeon
No man can serve two masters: He can serve two persons very readily. For the matter of that, he can serve twenty, but not two masters. There cannot be two master principles in a man’s heart, or master passions in a man’s soul. “No man can serve two masters.” Mat_6:24. For either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God...
Charles H. Spurgeon
No man can serve two masters: He may serve two individuals, who have conflicting interests but they cannot both be his masters. Mat_6:24. For either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Either the one or the other will be master, they are so opposed to each other that they will never agree to a divided...