Matthew 6:19–7:12

The Sermon on the Mount: Treasure in Heaven

¹⁹“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming insect^e destroy and where thieves break in and steal, ²⁰but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor consuming insect^f destroy and where thieves do not break in or steal. ²¹For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

²²“The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is sincere, your whole body will be full of light. ²³But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

²⁴“No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money.^g

The Sermon on the Mount: Anxiety

²⁵“For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat,^h and not for your body, what you will wear. Is your life not more than food and your body more than clothing? ²⁶Consider the birds of the sky, that they do not sow or reap or gather produce into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they are? ²⁷And who among you, by^* being anxious, is able to add one hourⁱ to his life span? ²⁸And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe the lilies of the field, how they grow: they do not toil or spin, ²⁹but I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like one of these. ³⁰But if God dresses the grass of the field in this way, although it^* is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not do so much more for you, you of little faith? ³¹Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?,’ ³²for the pagans seek after all these things. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³But seek first his kingdom and righteousness,^j and all these things will be added to you. ³⁴Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow, because tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.^k

The Sermon on the Mount: On Judging Others

7“Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. ²For by what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and by what measure you measure out, it will be measured out to you. ³And why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the beam of wood in your own eye? ⁴Or how will you say to your brother, ‘Allow me to remove the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam of wood is in your own eye? ⁵Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye!

⁶“Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls in front of pigs, lest they trample them with their feet, and turn around and^* tear you to pieces.

The Sermon on the Mount: Ask, Seek, Knock

⁷“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you. ⁸For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. ⁹Or what man is there among you, if his son will ask him for bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰Or also if he will ask for a fish, will give him a snake? ¹¹Therefore if you, although you^* are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? ¹²Therefore in all things, whatever you want that people should do to you, thus also you do to them. For this is the law and the prophets.