Matthew

6 [But] take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be gazed at by them,—otherwise at least reward have ye none with your Father who is in the heavens.

2 When therefore thou mayest be doing an alms do not sound a trumpet before thee, just as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets—that they may be glorified by men,—Verily I say unto you, they are getting back their reward.

3 But thou when doing an alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand is doing;

4 that thine alms may be in secret,—and thy Father who seeth in secret will give it back to thee.

5 And when ye may be praying ye shall not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues and at the corners of the broad ways to take their stand and pray, that they may shine before men; Verily I say unto you, they are getting back their reward.

6 But thou when thou wouldest pray enter into thy closet, and fastening thy door pray unto thy Father who is in secret,—and thy Father who seeth in secret will reward thee.

7 And being at prayer use not vain repetitions, just like the nations,—for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard;

8 do not therefore make yourselves like them, for [God] your Father knoweth of what things ye have need, before ye ask him.

9 Thus therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in the heavens,—Hallowed be thy name,

10 Come may thy kingdom,—Accomplished be thy will, as in heaven also on earth:

11 Our needful bread give us this day;

12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors;

13 And bring us not into temptation, But rescue us from the evil one.

14 For if ye forgive men their faults Your Father who is in the heavens will forgive even you;

15 But if ye forgive not men [their faults], Neither will your Father forgive your faults.

16 And when ye may be fasting become not ye as the hypocrites of sullen countenance,—for they darken their looks that they may appear unto men to be fasting: Verily I say unto you, they are getting back their reward.

17 But when thou art fasting anoint thy head and thy face wash,—

18 that thou do not appear unto men to be fasting, but to thy Father who is in secret,—and thy Father who seeth in secret will reward thee.

19 Be not laying up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust do tarnish and where thieves dig through and steal;

20 but be laying up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth tarnish and where thieves dig not through nor steal:

21 for where thy treasure is there will be thy heart [also].

22 The lamp of the body is the eye: If therefore thine eye be single Thy whole body shall be lighted up;

23 But if thine eye be evil Thy whole body shall be in the dark;—If therefore the light which is in thee is darkness The darkness how great!

24 No one unto two masters can be in service; For either the one he will hate and the other love, Or one he will hold to and the other despise: Ye cannot be in service unto God and unto Riches.

25 For this cause I say unto you: Be not anxious for your life, What ye shall eat [or what ye shall drink],—Or for your body, What ye shall put on: Is not the life more than the food? And the body than the raiment?

26 Observe intently the birds of the heaven,—That they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, And yet your heavenly Father feedeth them: Are not ye much better than they?

27 But who from among you being anxious can add to his stature one cubit?

28 And about clothing why are ye anxious? Consider well the lilies of the field how they grow,—They toil not neither do they spin;

29 And yet I say unto you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of these!

30 Now if the grass of the field—which to-day is and to-morrow into an oven is cast—God thus adorneth Not much rather you little of faith?

31 Do not then be anxious saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or Wherewithal shall we be arrayed?

32 For all these things the nations seek after,—For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye are needing all these things.

33 But be seeking first the kingdom and its righteousness,—And all these things shall be added unto you.

34 Do not then be anxious for the morrow; For the morrow will be anxious for itself: Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.