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Matthew 6

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Concerning Charitable Giving
1“Be sure that you do not do your righteous deeds before men to be seen by them. # Mt 23:5 Otherwise you have no reward # Mt 6:16 from your Father who is in heaven.
2“Therefore, when you do your charitable deeds, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honored by men. # Jn 5:44 Truly I say to you, they have their reward. # Mt 6:5 3But when you do your charitable deeds, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your righteous deeds may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly. # Mt 6:6, 18
The Lord’s Prayer
Lk 11:1–4
5“When you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing # Mk 11:25 in the synagogues and on the street corners that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. # Mt 6:16 6But you, when you pray, enter your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret. # 2Ki 4:33; Isa 26:20 And your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 7But when you pray, do not use vain repetitions, as the heathen do. # 1Ki 18:26–29 For they think that they will be heard for their much speaking. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what things you have need of before you ask Him. # Ps 38:9; Mt 6:32
9“Pray then in this manner:
Our Father, who is in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
10Your kingdom come; # Mt 3:2; 4:17
Your will be done
on earth, as it is in heaven.
11Give us this day our daily bread. # Pr 30:8; Isa 33:16
12And forgive us our debts, # Ex 34:7; Ps 32:1
as we forgive our debtors.
13And lead us not into temptation, # 1Co 10:13
but deliver us from the evil one. # Jn 17:15
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
14For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. # Mk 11:25; Eph 4:32 15But if you do not forgive men for their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. # Mt 18:35
Concerning Fasting
16“Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces so they may appear to men to be fasting. # Ps 35:13 Truly I say to you, they have their reward. # Mt 6:2 17But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18so that you will not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. # Mt 6:4, 6
Treasures in Heaven
Lk 12:33–34
19“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth # Lk 12:21; Heb 13:5 where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, # Mt 19:21; Lk 12:33 where neither moth nor rust destroy and where thieves do not break in nor steal, 21for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. # Lk 12:34
The Light of the Body
Lk 11:34–36
22“The light of the body is the eye. Therefore, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 23But if your eye is unhealthy, # Mt 20:15; Mk 7:22 your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
God and Money
24“No one 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 money. # Lk 16:13
Care and Anxiety
Lk 12:22–34
25“Therefore, I say to you, take no thought about your life, # Php 4:6 what you will eat, or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. # Mt 6:31, 34 Is not life more than food and the body than clothing? 26Look at the birds of the air, for they do not sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they? # Job 38:41; Ps 147:9 27Who among you by taking thought can add one cubit # 6:27 A cubit is about half a meter. to his stature?
28“Why take thought about clothing? # Mt 6:25, 31 Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither spin nor weave. 29Yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. # 1Ki 10:4–7; 2Ch 9:4–6 30Therefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is here and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? # Mt 8:26; 14:31 31Therefore, take no thought, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ # 1Pe 5:7 32For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. # Mt 6:8; Lk 12:30 33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you. # 1Ki 3:11–13 34Therefore, take no thought about tomorrow, # Mt 6:25 for tomorrow will take thought about the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is the trouble thereof.

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