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1 'BE CAREFUL not to make a show of your religion before men; if you do, no reward awaits you in your Father's house in heaven.
Teaching about Almsgiving Mt.6.1-4 (Galilee) -
2 'Thus, when you do some act of charity, do not announce it with a flourish of trumpets, as the hypocrites do in synagogue and in the streets to win admiration from men. I tell you this: they have their reward already.  
3 No; when you do some act of charity, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing;  
4 your good deed must be secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. Some winesses add: openly.

5 'Again, when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; they love to say their prayers standing up in synagogue and at the street-corners, for everyone to see them. I tell you this: they have their reward already. Teaching about Prayer Mt.6.5-15 (Galilee) -[ Mt.6.5-15 → ] - Lk.11.2-4
6 But when you pray, go into a room by yourself, shut the door, and pray to your Father who is there in the secret place; and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you. Some witnesses add: openly.

9 'This is how you should pray:
    "Our Father in heaven,
    Thy name be hallowed,

10 Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
On earth as in heaven.

11 Give us today our daily bread. Or: our bread for the morrow.

12 Forgive us the wrong we have done,
As we have forgiven those who have wronged us.

13 And do not bring us to the test,
But save us from the evil one." Or: from evil. Some witnesses add: For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, for ever. Amen.



16 'So too when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites: they make their faces unsightly so that other people may see that they are fasting. I tell you this: they have their reward already. Teaching about Fasting Mt.6.16-18 (Galilee) -
18 so that men may not see that you are fasting, but only your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees what is secret will give you your reward.
19 'DO NOT STORE UP for yourselves treasure on earth, where it grows rusty and moth-eaten, and thieves break in to steal it. Treasure in Heaven Mt.6.19-21 (Galilee) -[ Mt.6.19-21 → ] - Lk.12.33-34
21 For where your wealth is, there will your heart be also.
22 'The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eyes are sound, you will have light for your whole body; The Light of the Body Mt.6.22-23 (Galilee) -[ Mt.6.22-23 → ] - Lk.11.34-36
23 if the eyes are bad, your whole body will be in darkness. If then the only light you have is darkness, the darkness is doubly dark.
24 'No servant can be slave to two masters; for either he will hate the first and love the second, or he will be devoted to the first and think nothing of the second. You cannot serve God and Money.
God and Mammon Mt.6.24 (Galilee) -[ Mt.6.24 → ] - Lk.16.13
25 'Therefore I bid you put away anxious thoughts about food and drink to keep you alive, and clothes to cover your body. Surely life is more than food, the body more than clothes. Care and Anxiety Mt.6.25-34 (Galilee) -[ Mt.6.25-34 → ] - Lk.12.22-34
26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow and reap and store in barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. You are worth more than the birds!  
27 Is there a man of you who by anxious thought can add a foot to his height? Or: a day to his life.

28 And why be anxious about clothes? Consider how the lilies grow in the fields; they do not work, they do not spin; One witness reads: Consider the lilies: they neither card nor spin, nor labour.

29 and yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendour was not attired like one of these.
30 But if that is how God clothes the grass in the fields, which is there today, and tomorrow is thrown on the stove, will he not all the more clothe you?  
31 No, do not ask anxiously, "What are we to eat? What are we to drink? What shall we wear?"  
32 All these are things for the heathen to run after, not for you, because your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.  
34 So do not be anxious about tomorrow; tomorrow will look after itself. Each day has troubles enough of its own.

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