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If you do, you won't get a reward from your Father in heaven.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_2"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.2" class="v40_6_2">2</span>When you give to the poor, don't blow a loud horn. That's what show-offs do in the synagogues and on the street corners, because they are always looking for praise. I can assure you that they already have their reward.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_3"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.3" class="v40_6_3">3</span>When you give to the poor, don't let anyone know about it.<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v40_6_4"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.4" class="v40_6_4">4</span>Then your gift will be given in secret. Your Father knows what is done in secret and will reward you.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Prayer</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="LUK 11:2-4">Luke 11.2-4</ref>)</h5><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_5"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.5" class="v40_6_5">5</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.5!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When you pray, don't be like those show-offs who love to stand up and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners. They do this just to look good. I can assure you that they already have their reward.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_6"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.6" class="v40_6_6">6</span>When you pray, go into a room alone and close the door. Pray to your Father in private. He knows what is done in private and will reward you.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_7"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.7" class="v40_6_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When you pray, don't talk on and on as people do who don't know God. They think God likes to hear long prayers. </span><span class="v40_6_8"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.8" class="v40_6_8">8</span>Don't be like them. Your Father knows what you need even before you ask.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_9"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.9" class="v40_6_9">9</span>You should pray like this:</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_6_9">Our Father in heaven,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_6_9">help us to honor</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_6_9">your name.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_6_10"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.10" class="v40_6_10">10</span>Come and set up</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_6_10">your kingdom,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_6_10">so that everyone on earth</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_6_10">will obey you,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_6_10">as you are obeyed</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_6_10">in heaven.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_6_11"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.11" class="v40_6_11">11</span>Give us our food for today.<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_6_12"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.12" class="v40_6_12">12</span>Forgive us for doing wrong,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_6_12">as we forgive others.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v40_6_13"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.13" class="v40_6_13">13</span>Keep us from being tempted<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v40_6_13">and protect us from evil.<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.13!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_14"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.14" class="v40_6_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> <a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.14!x.2" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> If you forgive others for the wrongs they do to you, your Father in heaven will forgive you. </span><span class="v40_6_15"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.15" class="v40_6_15">15</span>But if you don't forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Worshiping God by Going without Eating</h3><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_16"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.16" class="v40_6_16">16</span>When you go without eating,<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.16!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> don't try to look gloomy as those show-offs do when they go without eating. I can assure you that they already have their reward. </span><span class="v40_6_17"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.17" class="v40_6_17">17</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.17!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Instead, comb your hair and wash your face. </span><span class="v40_6_18"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.18" class="v40_6_18">18</span>Then others won't know you are going without eating. But your Father sees what is done in private, and he will reward you.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Treasures in Heaven</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="LUK 12:33">Luke 12.33</ref>,<ref loc="LUK 12:34">34</ref>)</h5><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_19"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.19" class="v40_6_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Don't store up treasures on earth! Moths and rust can destroy them, and thieves can break in and steal them. </span><span class="v40_6_20"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.20" class="v40_6_20">20</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.20!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Instead, store up your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy them, and thieves cannot break in and steal them. </span><span class="v40_6_21"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.21" class="v40_6_21">21</span>Your heart will always be where your treasure is.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Light</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="LUK 11:34-36">Luke 11.34-36</ref>)</h5><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_22"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.22" class="v40_6_22">22</span>Your eyes are a window for your body. When they are good, you have all the light you need. </span><span class="v40_6_23"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.23" class="v40_6_23">23</span>But when your eyes are bad, everything is dark. If the light inside you is dark, you surely are in the dark.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Money</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="LUK 16:13">Luke 16.13</ref>)</h5><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_24"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.24" class="v40_6_24">24</span>You cannot be the slave of two masters! You will like one more than the other or be more loyal to one than the other. You cannot serve both God and money.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Worry</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="LUK 12:22-31">Luke 12.22-31</ref>)</h5><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_25"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.25" class="v40_6_25">25</span>I tell you not to worry about your life. Don't worry about having something to eat, drink, or wear. Isn't life more than food or clothing? </span><span class="v40_6_26"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.26" class="v40_6_26">26</span>Look at the birds in the sky! They don't plant or harvest. They don't even store grain in barns. Yet your Father in heaven takes care of them. Aren't you worth much more than birds?</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_27"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.27" class="v40_6_27">27</span>Can worry make you live longer?<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.27!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v40_6_28"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.28" class="v40_6_28">28</span>Why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow. They don't work hard to make their clothes. </span><span class="v40_6_29"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.29" class="v40_6_29">29</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.29!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But I tell you that Solomon with all his wealth<a href="#fn" id="link_Matt.6.29!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> wasn't as well clothed as one of them. </span><span class="v40_6_30"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.30" class="v40_6_30">30</span>God gives such beauty to everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown into a fire tomorrow. God will surely do even more for you! Why do you have such little faith?</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_31"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.31" class="v40_6_31">31</span>Don't worry and ask yourselves, “Will we have anything to eat? Will we have anything to drink? Will we have any clothes to wear?” </span><span class="v40_6_32"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.32" class="v40_6_32">32</span>Only people who don't know God are always worrying about such things. Your Father in heaven knows you need all of these. </span><span class="v40_6_33"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.33" class="v40_6_33">33</span>But more than anything else, put God's work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v40_6_34"><span class="reftext" id="Matt.6.34" class="v40_6_34">34</span>Don't worry about tomorrow. It will take care of itself. You have enough to worry about today.</span></p></div> </div> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">don't let anyone know about it: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Greek text has, “Don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">our food for today: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “the food that we need” or “our food for the coming day.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">tempted: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “tested.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">evil: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “the evil one,” that is, the devil. Some manuscripts add, “The kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours forever. Amen.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.16 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">without eating: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 4.2.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.27 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">live longer: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “grow taller.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">6.29 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Solomon with all his wealth: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Jewish people thought that Solomon was the richest person who had ever lived.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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