Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech: Matthew | Page 6

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the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like
the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the
other. You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.
006:025 For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your
lives, inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet
about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on. Is not the
life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing?
006:026 Look at the birds which fly in the air: they do not sow or reap
or store up in barns, but your Heavenly Father feeds them: are not you
of much greater value than they? 006:027 Which of you by being
over-anxious can add a single foot to his height? 006:028 And why be
anxious about clothing? Learn a lesson from the wild lilies. Watch their
growth. They neither toil nor spin, 006:029 and yet I tell you that not
even Solomon in all his magnificence could array himself like one of
these. 006:030 And if God so clothes the wild herbage which to-day
flourishes and to-morrow is thrown into the oven, is it not much more
certain that He will clothe you, you men of little faith? 006:031 Do not
be over-anxious, therefore, asking `What shall we eat?' or `What shall
we drink?' or `What shall we wear?' 006:032 For all these are questions

that Gentiles are always asking; but your Heavenly Father knows that
you need these things-- all of them. 006:033 But make His Kingdom
and righteousness your chief aim, and then these things shall all be
given you in addition. 006:034 Do not be over-anxious, therefore,
about to-morrow, for to-morrow will bring its own cares. Enough for
each day are its own troubles. 007:001 "Judge not, that you may not be
judged; 007:002 for your own judgement will be dealt--and your own
measure meted--to yourselves. 007:003 And why do you look at the
splinter in your brother's eye, and not notice the beam which is in your
own eye? 007:004 Or how say to your brother, `Allow me to take the
splinter out of your eye,' while the beam is in your own eye? 007:005
Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will
see clearly how to remove the splinter from your brother's eye. 007:006
"Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor throw your pearls to the
swine; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and then turn
and attack you. 007:007 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and
you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. 007:008 For it
is always he who asks that receives, he who seeks that finds, and he
who knocks that has the door opened to him. 007:009 What man is
there among you, who if his son shall ask him for bread will offer him a
stone? 007:010 Or if the son shall ask him for a fish will offer him a
snake? 007:011 If you then, imperfect as you are, know how to give
good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven
give good things to those who ask Him! 007:012 Everything, therefore,
be it what it may, that you would have men do to you, do you also the
same to them; for in this the Law and the Prophets are summed up.
007:013 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad the
road which leads to ruin, and many there are who enter by it; 007:014
because narrow is the gate and contracted the road which leads to Life,
and few are those who find it. 007:015 "Beware of the false
teachers--men who come to you in sheep's fleeces, but beneath that
disguise they are ravenous wolves. 007:016 By their fruits you will
easily recognize them. Are grapes gathered from thorns or figs from
brambles? 007:017 Just so every good tree produces good fruit, but a
poisonous tree produces bad fruit. 007:018 A good tree cannot bear bad
fruit, nor a poisonous tree good fruit. 007:019 Every tree which does
not yield good fruit is cut down and thrown aside for burning. 007:020

So by their fruits at any rate, you will easily recognize them. 007:021
"Not every one who says to me, `Master, Master,' will enter the
Kingdom of the Heavens, but only those who are obedient to my Father
who is in Heaven. 007:022 Many will say to me on that day, "`Master,
Master, have we not prophesied in Thy name, and in Thy name
expelled demons, and in Thy name performed many mighty works?'