Popular Bible Verses from Matthew 6

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But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Therefore, do not be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. 1 Some ancient manuscripts read acts of charity , in keeping with vv. 2,3,4 4 Some ancient manuscripts insert the reflexive pronoun Himself at this point 4 Some ancient manuscripts insert the adverb openly at this point 5 Or people , as the term is generically understood. So also vv. 2,14,15,16 6 Some ancient manuscripts insert the adverb openly at this point, like in v. 4 6 Or in the heavens 8 Some ancient manuscripts have divergent readings at this point. Some read God, your Father, while some others read your Father in the heavens 13 In conjunction with 1 Chron. 29:11-13, some ancient manuscripts insert at the end of the verse the expression: For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen . In addition, one ancient Greek manuscript reads: For Yours is the kingdom of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit forever. Amen 15 Some ancient manuscripts insert the expression your trespasses at this point, likely as a way of forming an antithetical parallel structure with v. 14 18 Some ancient manuscripts insert the adverb openly at this point, likely as a way of conforming the text to vv. 4,6

“For this reason, I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor for your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

But when you pray, go into your private room, and shutting your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. *

Therefore, you pray in this way: “Our Father who is in heaven, let Your name be revered as holy. Let Your kingdom come, let Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread

and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. *

For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Look at the birds of the sky, that they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more valuable than they?

“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal, but accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroy, and where thieves do not break in or steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be as well.

“No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and the other he will love, or he will be devoted to one and the other he will despise. You cannot serve God and money.

But if God clothes the grass of the field in this way, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more do so for you, O you of little faith?

But you, when you do philanthropic acts, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your philanthropic giving may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will * reward you. *

“And pay attention not to do your righteousness * before men * in order to be seen by them; otherwise, you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. *

“And when you fast, do not wear a mournful face, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces, so that they may appear to men as fasting. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you are fasting, anoint your head with olive oil and wash your face so that you may not appear to men as fasting but to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. *