Anderson - Matthew - 6

6:1  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.

6:2  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.

6:3  But when you do a charitable deed, let not your left hand know what your right hand does;

6:4  that your charitable deeds may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, himself will reward you openly.

6:5  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.

6:6  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.

6:7  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.

6:8  Be not, therefore, like them; for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him.

6:9  In this manner, therefore, pray you: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

6:10  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is done in heaven.

6:11  Give us this day the bread for our support.

6:12  And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

6:13  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the Evil One.

6:14  For if you forgive men their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

6:15  But if you forgive not men their offenses, neither will your Father forgive your offenses.

6:16  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.

6:17  But do you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face;

6:18  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.

6:19  Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal.

6:20  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal.

6:21  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

6:22  The lamp of the body is the eye: if, therefore, your eye be sound, your whole body will be light:

6:23  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!

6:24  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.

6:25  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?

6:26  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?

6:27  Which of you, by his anxiety, can add one span to his life?

6:28  And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they toil not, nor do they spin.

6:29  But I say to you, That Solomon, in all his glory, was not clothed like one of these.

6:30  If then, God so clothes the herb of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

6:31  Therefore, be not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, what shall we drink? or, with what shall we be clothed?

6:32  For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

6:33  But seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you in addition.

6:34  Therefore, be not anxious about the morrow, for the morrow will have anxieties of its own. Sufficient for the day is its own evil.