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title: Matthew 6
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**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.

**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. **3 **But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: **4 **That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

**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. **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.

**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. **8 **Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye 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 thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. **14 **For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: **15 **But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

**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. **17 **But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; **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.

**19 **Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: **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: **21 **For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

**22 **The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. **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!

**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.

**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? **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? **27 **Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? **28 **And why take ye 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 to morrow is cast into the oven, *shall he* not much more *clothe* you, O ye 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 ye have need of all these things. **33 **But seek ye 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 thereof.