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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 thou doing alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right does: <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>That thine alms might be in secret; and thy Father, who seeing in secret, shall give back to thee openly.<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 thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites; for they love in the assemblies, and in the corners of the broad ways to stand praying, so that they might appear to men. Verily I say to you, that they have their reward. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy store-house, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which in secret; and thy Father who seeing in secret shall give back to thee openly.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And praying, talk ye not vainly as the nations; for they think that by their profaneness of speech they shall be listened to. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Therefore make not yourselves like them: for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye ask him.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Therefore so do ye pray: Our Father which in the heavens, Let thy name be declared holy.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Let thy kingdom come. Let thy will be as in heaven also upon the earth.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Give us this day our bread sufficient for sustenance.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And let go to us our debts, as we let go to our debtors.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And thou shouldst not lead us into temptation, but deliver thou us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For if ye let go to men their faults, your Father which in the heavens will also let go to you. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But if ye should not let go to men their faults, neither will your Father let go your faults.<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 ye fast, be not, as hypocrites, of gloomy aspect: for they conceal their faces that they might appear to men fasting. Verily I say to you, That they have their reward. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And thou fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face; <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>That thou mightest not appear to men fasting, but to thy Father which in secret; and thy Father which in secret, will give back to thee openly.<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>Treasure not up to you treasures upon earth, where moth and gnawing destroy, and thieves dig through and steal: <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But treasure to you treasures in heaven, where neither moth, nor gnawing destroy; and where thieves dig not 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 light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be light. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be dark. If therefore the light which in thee is darkness, how much the darkness.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.<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 I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress? <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Look ye upon the fowls of heaven; for they neither sow, nor reap, nor collect into stores; and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Do ye not rather differ from them. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Which of you, being anxious, can add one cubit to his size? <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And about dress, why are ye anxious? Consider the white lilies of the field, how they grow; they are not wearied, neither do they spin: <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And I say to you, that neither Solomon in all his glory was surrounded as one of these. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And if the grass of the field, being this day, and to morrow cast into the furnace, God so clothes much rather you, ye of little faith! <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Therefore be ye not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What shall we put round us? <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For all these the nations seek for; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these. <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 justice, and all these shall be added to you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/matthew/6-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Therefore should ye not be anxious about the morrow: for the morrow shall be anxious about the things of itself. 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