1 Beware ofr1 John 2:29 practicing your righteousness before other people in ordersver. 16; ch. 23:5 to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
2 t[1 Cor. 13:3] Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they mayuJohn 5:44 be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they havevLuke 6:24 received their reward. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret.wver. 6, 18 And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
5 And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they lovexMark 11:25; Luke 18:11 to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others.yver. 2, 16 Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray,z2 Kgs. 4:33; Isa. 26:20 go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.aver. 4, 18 And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
7 And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases asbver. 32; ch. 5:47 the Gentiles do, forc1 Kgs. 18:26 they think that they will be hearddProv. 10:19; Eccles. 5:2 for their many words.
8 Do not be like them,ever. 32 for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
9 fFor ver. 9-13, [Luke 11:2-4] Pray then like this:
gver. 1 Our Father in heaven,
hIsa. 29:23; [Luke 1:49; 1 Pet. 3:15] hallowed beiJohn 17:6 your name.1Or Let your name be kept holy, or Let your name be treated with reverence
10 j[ch. 3:2; 4:17] Your kingdom come,
kch. 26:42; Luke 22:42; Acts 21:14; [ch. 12:50; Heb. 13:21] your will be done,1Or Let your kingdom come, let your will be done
lPs. 103:20, 21; Dan. 4:35 on earth as it is in heaven.
11 mProv. 30:8 Give usn[ver. 34] this day our daily bread,1Or our bread for tomorrow
12 and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 Andoch. 26:41; Mark 14:38; Luke 22:40, 46; [1 Cor. 10:13] lead us not into temptation,
butpJohn 17:15; 2 Thess. 3:3; [2 Tim. 4:18] deliver us fromqSee ch. 13:19 evil.1Or the evil one; some manuscripts add For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen
14 rMark 11:25; Luke 6:37; Eph. 4:32; Col. 3:13 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 sch. 18:35; See James 2:13 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16 AndtIsa. 58:5 when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others.uver. 2, 5 Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But when you fast,vRuth 3:3; 2 Sam. 12:20 anoint your head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret.wver. 4, 6 And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
19 xch. 19:21; Luke 12:21, 33, 34; 18:22; 1 Tim. 6:9, 10, 17-19; Heb. 13:5 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, whereyJames 5:2, 3 moth and rust1Or worm; also verse 20 destroy and where thieveszch. 24:43 break in and steal, 20 x[See ver. 19 above] but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22 aLuke 11:34, 35 The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23 a[See ver. 22 above] but ifbch. 20:15; Deut. 15:9; Prov. 28:22 your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
24 cLuke 16:13; [Rom. 6:16; James 4:4] No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God anddLuke 16:9, 11, 13 money.
25 eFor ver. 25-33, see Luke 12:22-31 Therefore I tell you,fver. 27, 28, 31, 34; ch. 10:19; 13:22 (Gk.); 1 Cor. 7:32 (Gk.); Phil. 4:6; 1 Pet. 5:7 do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 g[Job 38:41; Ps. 147:9] Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.hch. 10:31 Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to hisiLuke 2:52 span of life?1Or a single cubit to his stature; a cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you,j1 Kgs. 10:4-7 even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you,kch. 8:26; 14:31; 16:8; [ch. 17:20] O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat? ’ or ‘What shall we drink? ’ or ‘What shall we wear? ’ 32 Forlver. 7 the Gentiles seek after all these things, andmver. 8 your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 Butn[ch. 5:6, 20] seek firstover. 10 the kingdom of God and his righteousness,p[1 Kgs. 3:11-14; Mark 10:29, 30; 1 Tim. 4:8; 1 Pet. 3:9] and all these things will be added to you.
34 q[James 4:13, 14] Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.