Matthew 6:1–34

¹“Take good care not to practice ​YOUR​ righteousness in front of men in order to be observed by them; otherwise ​YOU​ will have no reward with ​YOUR​ Father who is in the heavens.²Hence when you go making gifts of mercy, do not blow a trumpet ahead of you, just as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be glorified by men. Truly I say to ​YOU, They are having their reward in full.³But you, when making gifts of mercy, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing,⁴that your gifts of mercy may be in secret; then your Father who is looking on in secret will repay you.

⁵“Also, when ​YOU​ pray, ​YOU​ must not be as the hypocrites; because they like to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the broad ways to be visible to men. Truly I say to ​YOU, They are having their reward in full.⁶You, however, when you pray, go into your private room and, after shutting your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; then your Father who looks on in secret will repay you.⁷But when praying, do not say the same things over and over again, just as the people of the nations do, for they imagine they will get a hearing for their use of many words.⁸So, do not make yourselves like them, for God ​YOUR​ Father knows what things ​YOU​ are needing before ever ​YOU​ ask him.

⁹“YOU​ must pray, then, this way:

“‘Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified.¹⁰Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.¹¹Give us today our bread for this day;¹²and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.¹³And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the wicked one.’

¹⁴“For if ​YOU​ forgive men their trespasses, ​YOUR​ heavenly Father will also forgive ​YOU;¹⁵whereas if ​YOU​ do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will ​YOUR​ Father forgive ​YOUR​ trespasses.

¹⁶“When ​YOU​ are fasting, stop becoming sad‐faced like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly I say to ​YOU, They are having their reward in full.¹⁷But you, when fasting, grease your head and wash your face,¹⁸that you may appear to be fasting, not to men, but to your Father who is in secrecy; then your Father who is looking on in secrecy will repay you.

¹⁹“Stop storing up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal.²⁰Rather, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal.²¹For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

²²“The lamp of the body is the eye. If, then, your eye is simple, your whole body will be bright;²³but if your eye is wicked, your whole body will be dark. If in reality the light that is in you is darkness, how great that darkness is!

²⁴“No one can slave for two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stick to the one and despise the other. YOU​ cannot slave for God and for Riches.

²⁵“On this account I say to ​YOU: Stop being anxious about ​YOUR​ souls as to what ​YOU​ will eat or what ​YOU​ will drink, or about ​YOUR​ bodies as to what ​YOU​ will wear. Does not the soul mean more than food and the body than clothing?²⁶Observe intently the birds of heaven, because they do not sow seed or reap or gather into storehouses; still ​YOUR​ heavenly Father feeds them. Are ​YOU​ not worth more than they are?²⁷Who of ​YOU​ by being anxious can add one cubit to his life span?²⁸Also, on the matter of clothing, why are ​YOU​ anxious? Take a lesson from the lilies of the field, how they are growing; they do not toil, nor do they spin;²⁹but I say to ​YOU​ that not even Sol′o‧mon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.³⁰If, now, God thus clothes the vegetation of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much rather clothe ​YOU, ​YOU​ with little faith?³¹So never be anxious and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or, ‘What are we to drink?’ or, ‘What are we to put on?’³²For all these are the things the nations are eagerly pursuing. For ​YOUR​ heavenly Father knows ​YOU​ need all these things.

³³“Keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these [other] things will be added to ​YOU.³⁴So, never be anxious about the next day, for the next day will have its own anxieties. Sufficient for each day is its own badness.