Matthew:6

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* But take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men , to be seen by them ; otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven . * Therefore when thou doest 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 . Truly do I say to you , They have received their reward . * But when thou doest alms , let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth ; * that thine alms may be in secret ; and thy Father , who seeth in secret , will reward thee . * And when ye pray , ye shall 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 by men . Truly do I say to you , They have received their reward . * But do thou , when thou prayest , enter into thy closet , and , when thou hast shut thy door , pray to thy Father who is in secret ; and thy Father , who seeth in secret , will reward thee . * But when ye pray , use not vain repetitions , as the heathen do ; for they think that they shall be heard for the multitude of their words . * Be not ye therefore like them ; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of , before ye ask him . * After this manner therefore pray ye :––Our Father , who art in heaven , hallowed be thy name ; * thy kingdom come ; thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven ; * give us this day our daily bread ; * and forgive us our debts , as we also have forgiven our debtors ; * and lead us not into temptation , but deliver us from evil . * For if ye forgive men their trespasses , your heavenly Father will also forgive you ; * but if ye do not forgive men , neither will your Father forgive your trespasses . * Moreover , when ye fast , be not , as the hypocrites , of a sad countenance ; for they disfigure their faces , that they may appear to men to be fasting . Truly do I say to you , They have received their reward . * But do thou , when thou fastest , anoint thy head , and wash thy face ; * that thou appear not to men to be fasting , but to thy Father who is in secret ; and thy Father , who seeth in secret , will reward thee . * Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth , where the moth and rust consume , and where thieves break through and steal ; * but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven , where neither moth nor rust consumeth , and where thieves do not break through nor steal . * For where thy treasure is , there will thy heart be also . * The eye is the lamp of the body . If thine eye he clear , thy whole body will be in light ; * but if thine eye be disordered , thy whole body will be in darkness . If then the light that is within thee is darkness , how great that darkness ! * No one can serve two masters ; for either he will hate one , and love the other ; or else he will cleave to one , and despise the other . Ye cannot serve God and mammon . * Therefore I say to you , Be not anxious for your life , what ye shall eat ; nor yet for your body , what ye shall put on . Is not the life more than food , and the body than raiment ? * Behold the birds of the air , that they sow not , nor reap , nor gather into barns ; and your heavenly Father feedeth them . Are not ye of much greater value than they ? * But who of you by anxious thought can add to his life one cubit ? * And why are ye anxious about raiment ? Consider the lilies of the field , how they grow . They toil not , neither do they spin ; * and yet I say to you , that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of these . * And if God so clothes the herbage of the field , which today is , and tomorrow is cast into an oven , will he not much more clothe you , O ye of little faith ? * Therefore be not anxious , saying , What shall we eat , or what shall we drink , or wherewith shall we he clothed ? * For after all these things do the gentiles seek ; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things . * But seek first his kingdom , and his righteousness ; and all these things will also be given you . * Be not then anxious about the morrow ; for the morrow will be anxious about itself . Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof .

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