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Matthew 6:9–34

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9In this gmanner, therefore, pray:

hOur Father in heaven,

Hallowed be Your iname.

10Your kingdom come.

jYour will be done

On earth kas it is in heaven.

11Give us this day our ldaily bread.

12And mforgive us our debts,

As we forgive our debtors.

13n And do not lead us into temptation,

But odeliver us from the evil one.

4For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

14p“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15But qif you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Fasting

16“Moreover, rwhen you fast, do not be like the 5hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 17But you, when you fast, sanoint your head and wash your face, 18so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you 6openly.

Wealth

Luke 11:34–36; 12:22–34

19t“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20ubut lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

22v “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is 7good, your whole body will be full of light. 23But if your eye is 8bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

24w“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. xYou cannot serve God and 9mammon.

25“Therefore I say to you, ydo not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26zLook at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27Which of you by worrying can add one 1cubit to his 2stature?

28“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 29and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not 3arrayed like one of these. 30Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33But aseek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Read in Logos
Matthew 6:26: Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Footnotes

  1. 4NU omits the rest of v. 13.
  2. 5pretenders
  3. 6NU, M omit openly
  4. 7Clear, or healthy
  5. 8Evil, or unhealthy
  6. 9Lit., in Aram., riches
  7. 1About 18 inches
  8. 2height
  9. 3dressed

Cross references

  1. gMatt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4; [John 16:24; Eph. 6:18; Jude 20]
  2. h[Matt. 5:9, 16]
  3. iMal. 1:11
  4. jMatt. 26:42; Luke 22:42; Acts 21:14
  5. kPs. 103:20
  6. l[Job 23:12]; Prov. 30:8; Is. 33:16; Luke 11:3
  7. m[Matt. 18:21, 22]
  8. n[Matt. 26:41; 1 Cor. 10:31; 2 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 3:10]
  9. oJohn 17:15; [2 Thess. 3:3]; 2 Tim. 4:18; [1 John 5:18]
  10. p[Matt. 7:2]; Mark 11:25; [Eph. 4:32; Col. 3:13]
  11. qMatt. 18:35; James 2:13
  12. rIs. 58:3–7; Luke 18:12
  13. sRuth 3:3; 2 Sam. 12:20; Dan. 10:3
  14. tProv. 23:4; [1 Tim. 6:17; Heb. 13:5]; James 5:1
  15. uMatt. 19:21; Luke 12:33; 18:22; 1 Tim. 6:19; 1 Pet. 1:4
  16. vLuke 11:34, 35
  17. wLuke 16:9, 11, 13
  18. x[Gal. 1:10; 1 Tim. 6:17; James 4:4; 1 John 2:15]
  19. y[Ps. 55:22]; Luke 12:22; [Phil. 4:6; 1 Pet. 5:7]
  20. zJob 38:41; Ps. 147:9; Matt. 10:29; Luke 12:24
  21. a1 Kin. 3:13; Luke 12:31; [1 Tim. 4:8]