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so that your charitable deed may be in secret;
and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
5 "And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray
standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly,
I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room,
shut the door and pray to your Father, who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in
secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not use empty repetitions as the
Gentiles do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like
them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray, then, in this way:
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
10 Your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.'
14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your
trespasses.
16 "And when you fast, do not look gloomy, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their
faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Truly, I say to you, they have received
their reward. 17 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 so that you
do not appear to be fasting to men, but to your Father who is in secret; and your Father
who sees in secret will reward you.
19 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and
where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where
your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22 The lamp of the body is the eye. So if
your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your
whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is that
darkness! 24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the
other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and
mammon.
25 "Therefore I tell you, do 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? 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?
27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his span of life? 28 And why do you
worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor
spin, 29 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Now 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?'
32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you
need them all. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things
shall be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow
will worry about itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
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1 "Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the same judgment you judge others, you
will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 And why do
you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?

4 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there
is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and
then you will see clearly to remove the speck