MT-6:1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be
seen of them:
otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
MT-6:2 Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a
trumpet before
thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets,
that they may
have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
MT-6:3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know
what thy right
hand doeth:
MT-6:4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which
seeth in secret
himself shall reward thee openly.
MT-6:5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites [are]: for
they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners
of the streets,
that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have
their reward.
MT-6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and
when thou hast
shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy
Father which
seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
MT-6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the
heathen [do]: for
they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
MT-6:8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father
knoweth what things
ye have need of, before ye ask him.
MT-6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which
art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
MT-6:10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as [it is]
in heaven.
MT-6:11 Give us this day our daily bread.
MT-6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
MT-6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from
evil: For thine
is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
MT-6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly
Father will also
forgive you:
MT-6:15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither
will your Father
forgive your trespasses.
MT-6:16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a
sad
countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may
appear unto men to
fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
MT-6:17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and
wash thy face;
MT-6:18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy
Father which is in
secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee
openly.
MT-6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where
moth and rust
doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
MT-6:20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor
rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor
steal:
MT-6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be
also.
MT-6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine
eye be single,
thy whole body shall be full of light.
MT-6:23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full
of darkness. If
therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great [is]
that darkness!
MT-6:24 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. Ye
cannot serve God and mammon.
MT-6:25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life,
what ye shall
eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye
shall put on. Is
not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
MT-6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither
do they reap,
nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.
Are ye not much
better than they?
MT-6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto
his stature?
MT-6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the
lilies of the field,
how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
MT-6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his
glory was not
arrayed like one of these.
MT-6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field,
which to day is,
and to morrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more
[clothe] you, O
ye of little faith?
MT-6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?
or, What shall
we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
MT-6:32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for
your heavenly
Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
MT-6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all
these things shall be added unto you.
MT-6:34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the
morrow shall take
thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is]
the evil
thereof.
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