1 ¶ ‹Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.› See also: Matthew 23:5 John 12:43 Hebrews 6:10 Matthew 23:28-30 Luke 16:15
2 ‹Therefore when thou doest› thine ‹alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.› See also: Matthew 6:5 Matthew 6:16 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 John 5:41 James 2:15-16
3 ‹But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:› See also: John 7:4 Matthew 9:30 Mark 1:44 Matthew 12:19 Matthew 8:4
4 ‹That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.› See also: Matthew 6:18 Matthew 6:6 Jeremiah 17:10 Luke 14:14 Psalms 44:21
5 ¶ ‹And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites› are: ‹for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.› See also: Matthew 6:2 Luke 18:10-11 Luke 18:13 Mark 11:25 Isaiah 55:6-7
6 ‹But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.› See also: 2 Kings 4:33 Matthew 14:23 Isaiah 65:24 Psalms 34:15 Acts 9:40
7 ‹But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen› do: ‹for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.› See also: Ecclesiastes 5:2-3 Ecclesiastes 5:7 1 Kings 18:26-29 Matthew 6:32 Matthew 26:44
8 ‹Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.› See also: Matthew 6:32 Luke 12:30 Philippians 4:6 John 16:23-27 Psalms 38:9
9 ¶ ‹After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.› See also: Revelation 4:11 Luke 11:1-4 Romans 8:15 Psalms 111:9 Isaiah 64:8
10 ‹Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as› it is ‹in heaven.› See also: Hebrews 10:36 Matthew 26:42 Matthew 12:50 John 4:34 1 Thessalonians 5:18
11 ‹Give us this day our daily bread.› See also: Proverbs 30:8 Luke 11:3 Matthew 4:4 Psalms 34:10 John 6:31-59
12 ‹And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.› See also: Ephesians 4:32 Mark 11:25 Ephesians 1:7 Matthew 18:21-35 Colossians 3:13
13 ‹And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.› See also: 1 Corinthians 10:13 Matthew 26:41 John 17:15 Revelation 7:14-17 2 Thessalonians 3:3
14 ‹For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:› See also: Ephesians 4:32 Mark 11:25 Colossians 3:13 Matthew 7:2 James 2:13
15 ‹But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.› See also: Matthew 18:35
16 ¶ ‹Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.› See also: Isaiah 58:3-5 Matthew 9:14-15 Nehemiah 1:4 Daniel 9:3 Psalms 69:10
17 ‹But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;› See also: Ruth 3:3 Ecclesiastes 9:8 2 Samuel 12:20 Daniel 10:2-3 2 Samuel 14:2
18 ‹That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.› See also: Matthew 6:4 Matthew 6:6 2 Corinthians 10:18 2 Corinthians 5:9 Colossians 3:22-24
19 ¶ ‹Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:› See also: Hebrews 13:5 1 John 2:15-16 Luke 12:21 Proverbs 23:4-5 Proverbs 11:4
20 ‹But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:› See also: Luke 12:33 Matthew 19:21 James 2:5 Luke 18:22 1 Timothy 6:19
21 ‹For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.› See also: Colossians 3:1-3 Luke 12:34 2 Corinthians 4:18 Proverbs 4:23 Isaiah 33:6
22 ‹The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.› See also: Luke 11:34-36 2 Corinthians 11:3 Colossians 3:22 Ephesians 6:5 Acts 2:46
23 ‹But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great› is ‹that darkness!› See also: Matthew 6:22 1 John 2:11 Isaiah 5:20-21 Proverbs 26:12 Jeremiah 4:22
24 ‹No man 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. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.› See also: 1 John 2:15-16 Luke 16:13 James 4:4 1 Timothy 6:9-10 Joshua 24:15
25 ¶ ‹Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?› See also: Philippians 4:6 1 Peter 5:7 Romans 8:32 Psalms 55:22 Luke 12:22-31
26 ‹Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?› See also: Matthew 10:29-31 Psalms 147:9 Job 38:41 Luke 12:24-32 Psalms 145:15-16
27 ‹Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?› See also: Luke 12:25-26 Ecclesiastes 3:14 Psalms 39:5-6 Matthew 5:36 1 Corinthians 12:18
28 ‹And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:› See also: Matthew 6:25 Philippians 4:6 Luke 12:27 Matthew 6:31 Luke 22:35-36
29 ‹And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.› See also: 2 Chronicles 9:20-22 2 Chronicles 9:4-6 1 Kings 10:4-7 1 Timothy 2:9-10 1 Peter 3:2-5
30 ‹Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven,› shall he ‹not much more› clothe ‹you, O ye of little faith?› See also: Matthew 14:31 Luke 12:28 1 Peter 1:24 Matthew 8:26 Matthew 16:8
31 ‹Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?› See also: 1 Peter 5:7 Luke 12:29 Matthew 4:4 Psalms 55:22 Matthew 15:33
32 ‹(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.› See also: Matthew 6:8 Luke 12:30 Ephesians 4:17 Luke 11:11-13 Psalms 17:14
33 ‹But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.› See also: Luke 12:31 Matthew 5:6 John 6:27 Psalms 34:9-10 Psalms 84:11-12
34 ‹Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day› is ‹the evil thereof.› See also: Matthew 6:25 John 14:27 Hebrews 13:5-6 John 16:33 Luke 11:3