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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Matthew 6 Anderson's New Testament</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/matthew/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/matthew/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Anderson</a> > Matthew 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../matthew/5.htm" title="Matthew 5">◄</a> Matthew 6 <a href="../matthew/7.htm" title="Matthew 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Anderson's New Testament</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/matthew/6-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Giving to the Needy<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Beware of doing your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>When, therefore, you do a charitable deed, do not cause a trumpet to be sounded before you, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be glorified by men. Verily, I say to you, They have their reward. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But when you do a charitable deed, let not your left hand know what your right hand does; <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>that your charitable deeds may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, himself will reward you openly.<CM><p> <A name="6"></a><p class="hdg">The Lord’s Prayer<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/11.htm">Luke 11:1–4</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Verily, I say to you, They have their reward. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But do you, when you pray, go into your closet, and when you have closed the door, pray to your Father who is in secret: and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they will be heard for their many words. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Be not, therefore, like them; for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him.<CM><p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In this manner, therefore, pray you: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is done in heaven.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Give us this day the bread for our support.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For if you forgive men their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But if you forgive not men their offenses, neither will your Father forgive your offenses.<CM><p> <A name="17"></a><p class="hdg">Proper Fasting<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And when you fast, do not put on a sad countenance, as the hypocrites do; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to be fasting. Verily, I say to you, They have their reward. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But do you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face; <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>that you may not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.<CM><p> <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">Treasures in Heaven<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/12.htm#32">Luke 12:32–34</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.<p> <A name="23"></a><p class="hdg">The Lamp of the Body<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/11.htm#33">Luke 11:33–36</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>The lamp of the body is the eye: if, therefore, your eye be sound, your whole body will be light: <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But if your eye be diseased, your whole body will be dark. If therefore, the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!<CM><p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>No one can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and neglect the other. You can not serve God and riches.<p> <A name="26"></a><p class="hdg">Do Not Worry<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../luke/12.htm#22">Luke 12:22–31</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For this reason I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what you shall eat, and what you shall drink; nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not your life a greater gift than food, and your body than clothing? <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Observe the birds of the air, that they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into granaries. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they? <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Which of you, by his anxiety, can add one span to his life? <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they toil not, nor do they spin. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>But I say to you, That Solomon, in all his glory, was not clothed like one of these. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If then, God so clothes the herb of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith? <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Therefore, be not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, what shall we drink? or, with what shall we be clothed? <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>But seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you in addition.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Therefore, be not anxious about the morrow, for the morrow will have anxieties of its own. Sufficient for the day is its own evil.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Anderson's New Testament (1865)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../matthew/5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Matthew 5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Matthew 5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../matthew/7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Matthew 7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Matthew 7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>