The Bible

Matthew Chapter 6

¹"Be careful that you-all don't do your charitable giving before people, to be seen by them, or else you-all have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. ²So when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from humans. Absolutely I tell you-all, they have received their reward. ³But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does, ⁴so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

⁵"When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by people. Absolutely, I tell you-all, they have received their reward. ⁶But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut the door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. ⁷In praying, don't use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for speaking so much. ⁸So don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you-all ask him. ⁹Pray like this:
"'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
¹⁰Let your Kingdom come.
Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
¹¹Give us today our daily bread.
¹²Forgive us our debts,
as we also forgive our debtors.
¹³Don't bring us into testing,
but deliver us from the evil one.
[*For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Absolutely].'

¹⁴"For if you-all forgive people their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you-all. ¹⁵But if you-all don't forgive people their trespasses, nor will your Father forgive your trespasses.

¹⁶"Moreover when you-all fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by people to be fasting. Absolutely I tell you-all, they have received their reward. ¹⁷But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, ¹⁸so that you are not seen by people to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

¹⁹"Don't store treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; ²⁰but store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal; ²¹for where your treasure is, there your heart will also be.

²²"The lamp of the body is the eye. So if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. ²³But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If even the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

²⁴"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and selflessly-love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You-all can't serve both God and your-savings. ²⁵Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you-all will eat, or what you-all will drink; nor for your body, what you-all will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶See the birds of the sky, they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you-all of much more value [than they are]?

²⁷"Which of you-all by being anxious, can add one moment to your lifespan? ²⁸Why are you-all anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't work, nor do they spin, ²⁹yet I tell you-all that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. ³⁰But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the fire-oven, won't he much more clothe you-all, you-all of little faith?

³¹"So don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?' ³²For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you-all need all these things. ³³But seek first God's Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you-all as well. ³⁴So don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is [quite] sufficient.