The Gospel of Matthew for Readers | Page 5

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 that
thou not appear to fast. Keep secret except unto thy Father, who is in
secret, and thy Father shall reward thee openly.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust
corrupts, and where thieves break in and steal. 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 thine eye be single, thy whole body
shall be full of light. But, if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be
full of darkness. And, if the light that is in thee becomes darkness, how
much greater will be that darkness!
No man 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 eye, then thou shall
see clearly enough to cast the mote from thy brother's eye.
Do not give that which is holy to dogs. And do not cast your pearls
before swine lest they trample them under their feet and turn around
and rend you.
Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it
shall be opened to you. Who of you is there who, if his son asks for
bread, will give him a stone? Or, if he asks for a fish, will give him a
serpent? If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more shall your Father in heaven give good things
to those who ask Him? Therefore, all things ye would have others do to
you, do so to them. This is the law and the meaning of the prophets.
Enter in at the strait gate. Wide is the gate and broad is the way that
leads to destruction. Many go in that way. Because the gate is strait and
the way that leads to life is narrow, there are few who find it.
Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing but are
inwardly ravenous wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men
gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? No, every good tree
brings forth good fruit. A corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit. A