Matthew 6
1 Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them:
else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.
2 When therefore thou doest alms, sound not 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 received their reward.
3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand
doeth:
4 that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret shall
recompense thee.
5 And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to stand
and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be
seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut
thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and thy Father who seeth in
secret shall recompense thee.
7 And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think
that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have
need of, before ye ask him.
9 After this manner therefore pray ye. Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be
thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil [one] .
14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also
forgive you.
15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive
your trespasses.
16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for
they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen of men to fast. Verily I say
unto you, They have received their reward.
17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and wash thy face;
18 that thou be not seen of men to fast, but of thy Father who is in secret: and
thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall recompense thee.
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust
consume, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 for where thy treasure is, there will thy heart be also.
22 The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole
body shall be full of light.
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 the darkness!
24 No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the
other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God
and mammon.
25 Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious 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 the food, and the body than the raiment?
26 Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor
gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much
more value then they?
27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his
life?
28 And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like
one of these.
30 But if God doth 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?
31 Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?
or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father
knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things
shall be added unto you.
34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for
itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.