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📚✭“Watch out that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward✭ from your Father who is in heaven.2 📚✭“Therefore when you do charitable deeds, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, so that they may get glory from men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. 3 📚✭But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 📚so that your charitable deeds will be in secret. And your Father himself, who sees in secret, will reward you openly.
The King teaches us how to pray
5 📚✭“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners, so that they will be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. 6 📚But you, when you pray, go into your room, and shutting your door, pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. 7 📚✭But when you pray, do not use empty repetitions, as the pagans do. For they think that they will be heard because of their many words. 8 📚So do not be like them, for your Father✭ knows what things you need, before you ask him.
9 📚✭“Therefore pray in this way:
Our Father✭ who is 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 forgive our debtors.
13 📚And lead us not into temptation,✭
but deliver us from evil.✭
For yours is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory, forever. Amen✭.
The King tells us how to live
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 📚✭“Moreover when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, putting on a gloomy appearance. For they disfigure their faces, so that they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward. 17 📚✭But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, 18 📚so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly.
19 📚“Do not store up for yourselves treasures✭ on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 📚But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven,✭ where neither moth nor rust destroy, and where thieves do not break in or steal. 21 📚✭For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 📚✭“The light of the body is the eye. Therefore 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. Therefore if the light that is 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 else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.✭
25 📚✭“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or for your body, what you will put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 📚✭See the birds of the air. For they do not sow, they do not reap or gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? 27 📚Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his height?
28 📚“And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They do not work, they do not spin. 29 📚✭And yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not adorned like one of these. 30 📚Therefore, if God clothes the grass of the field like this, which today is here, 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 will we eat?’ or, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘What will we wear?’ 32 📚✭(For the Gentiles go after all these things.) For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33 📚✭But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. 34 📚✭Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Its own trouble is enough for the day.