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ye do not do your almsgiving to be seen by others. If
so, ye have no reward from your Father in heaven. When you give, do
not sound a trumpet in the synagogues and in the streets as do the
hypocrites. They seek the glory of men. Verily, I say unto you, They
have their reward.
When you give alms, do not let thy left hand know what thy right does.
Give alms in secret and thy Father, who sees in secret, shall reward thee
openly.
When thou pray, thou shalt not be like the hypocrites. They love to
pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets so they
may be seen. Verily, I say unto you, They have their reward.
When you pray, enter into your closet. When you shut the door, pray to
thy Father in secret. Thy Father, who sees in secret, shall reward you
openly.
When ye pray, do not use vain repetitions like the heathen. They think
that they shall be heard for their long speaking. Be not like them. Your
Father knows what things ye need even before ye ask Him.
Pray like this: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give
us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our
debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For
Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
If ye forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also
forgive you. But if ye do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will
your Father forgive your trespasses. Moreover, when ye fast, be not as
the hypocrites. They disfigure their faces and look sad so they may
appear to others to fast. Verily, I say unto you, They have their reward.
However, when thou fast, anoint thy head and wash thy face so you do
not appear to fast. Keep secret except unto thy Father, who is in secret,
and thy Father shall reward thee openly.
Do not lay up treasures on earth, where moth and rust corrupts, and
where thieves break in and steal them. Instead, lay up treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupts, nor thieves can break in
and steal. For, where your treasure is, there, also, will be your heart.

The light of the body is the eye. If your eye is clear, your whole body is
full of light. But, if your eye is clouded with evil, your whole body is
full of darkness. And, if that light in you grows dark, how much greater
will that darkness be!
No one can serve two masters. He will either hate the one and love the
other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve
God and mammon. Therefore, I say unto you, Take no concern for your
life: what ye shall eat, what ye shall drink; nor for your body: what ye
shall put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than raiment?
Behold the fowls of the air. They sow not, and neither do they reap nor
gather into barns. Yet, your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not
worth as much as they are? And, who of you, by worrying, can add one
cubit to his stature? So why take thought for raiment?
Consider the lilies of the field and how they grow. They toil not and
neither do they spin. Even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed
like one of them. So, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which
today is here and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not clothe
you even more, O ye of little faith?
So, take no concern by saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we
drink? or, How shall we be clothed? Your heavenly Father knows that
ye need all these things. Instead, seek ye first the kingdom of God and
His righteousness. Then all these things shall be added unto you. Take
no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take care of itself. The
cares of today are sufficient for today.
7. Judge not that ye be not judged, for with what judgment ye judge, ye
shall be judged. And with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured
to you again.
Why behold the mote in thy brother's eye, but not consider the beam in
thine own eye? How can you say to thy brother, Let me pull the mote
out of thine eye when, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou
hypocrite. First, cast out the beam from thine own