rsv Matthew:6:11-32-33 SEEK
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Give us this day our daily bread ;
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And forgive us our debts ,
As we also have forgiven our debtors ;
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And lead us not into temptation ,
But deliver us from evil .
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For if you forgive men their trespasses ,
your heavenly Father also will forgive you ;
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but if you do not forgive men their trespasses ,
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses .
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And when you fast ,
do not look dismal ,
like the hypocrites ,
for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men .
Truly ,
I say to you ,
they have received their reward .
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But when you fast ,
anoint your head and wash your face ,
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that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret ;
and your Father who sees in secret will reward you .
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Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth ,
where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal ,
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but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven ,
where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal .
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For where your treasure is ,
there will your heart be also .
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The eye is the lamp of the body .
So ,
if your eye is sound ,
your whole body will be full of light ;
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but if your eye is not sound ,
your whole body will be full of darkness .
If then the light in you is darkness ,
how great is the darkness !
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No one can serve two masters ;
for either he will hate the one and love the other ,
or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other .
You cannot serve God and mammon .
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Therefore I tell you ,
do not be anxious about your life ,
what you shall eat or what you shall drink ,
nor about your body ,
what you shall put on .
Is not life more than food ,
and the body more than clothing ?
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Look at the birds of the air :
they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns ,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them .
Are you not of more value than they ?
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And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life ?
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And why are you anxious about clothing ?
Consider the lilies of the field ,
how they grow ;
they neither toil nor spin ;
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yet I tell you ,
even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these .
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But if God so clothes the grass of the field ,
which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven ,
will he not much more clothe you ,
O men of little faith ?
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Therefore do not be anxious ,
saying , `
What shall we eat ?'
or `
What shall we drink ?'
or `
What shall we wear ?'
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For the Gentiles seek all these things ;
and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all .