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Chapter 6  
     
1.
 Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
  
2.
 Therefore when you doest your 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.
  
3.
 But when you doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:
  
4.
 That your alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward you openly.
  
5.
 And when you prayest, you shall 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.
  
6.
 But you, when you prayest, enter into thy closet, and when you have shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward you openly.
  
7.
 But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
  
8.
 Be not you therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things you have need of, before you ask him.
  
9.
 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
  
10.
 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
  
11.
 Give us this day our daily bread.
  
12.
 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
  
13.
 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
  
14.
 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
  
15.
 But if you forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
  
16.
 Moreover when you 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.
  
17.
 But you, when you fastest, anoint your head, and wash thy face;
  
18.
 That you appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward you openly.
  
19.
 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
  
20.
 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
  
21.
 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
  
22.
 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
  
23.
 But if your eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!
  
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. You cannot serve God and mammon.
  
25.
 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
  
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 you not much better than they?
  
27.
 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
  
28.
 And why take you thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
  
29.
 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
  
30.
 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
  
31.
 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
  
32.
 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of all these things.
  
33.
 But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
  
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 of it.
  

 
 
 

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