| 6:1 |
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be
seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father
which is in heaven.
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| 6:2 |
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound 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 their reward.
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| 6:3 |
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know
what thy right hand doeth:
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| 6:4 |
That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father
which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
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| 6:5 |
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the
synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they
may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have
their reward.
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| 6:6 |
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet,
and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father
which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret
shall reward thee openly.
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| 6:7 |
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the
heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for
their much speaking.
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| 6:8 |
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father
knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
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| 6:9 |
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which
art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
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| 6:10 |
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is
in heaven.
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| 6:11 |
Give us this day our daily bread.
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| 6:12 |
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
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| 6:13 |
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from
evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the
glory, for ever. Amen.
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| 6:14 |
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly
Father will also forgive you:
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| 6:15 |
But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither
will your Father forgive your trespasses.
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| 6:16 |
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of
a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that
they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you,
They have their reward.
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| 6:17 |
But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and
wash thy face;
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| 6:18 |
That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy
Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in
secret, shall reward thee openly.
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| 6:19 |
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where
moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break
through and steal:
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| 6:20 |
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do
not break through nor steal:
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| 6:21 |
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be
also.
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| 6:22 |
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine
eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
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| 6:23 |
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 that darkness!
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| 6:24 |
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate
the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the
one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and
mammon.
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| 6:25 |
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought 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 meat, and the body than raiment?
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| 6:26 |
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not,
neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your
heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than
they?
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| 6:27 |
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto
his stature?
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| 6:28 |
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not,
neither do they spin:
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| 6:29 |
And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these.
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| 6:30 |
Wherefore, if God 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?
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| 6:31 |
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat?
or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be
clothed?
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| 6:32 |
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:)
for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all
these things.
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| 6:33 |
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto
you.
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| 6:34 |
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the
morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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