Matthew 6:5-34

The Lord's Prayer

5 "And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love ¹to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. ²Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

6 But when you pray, ³go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. ⁴And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

7 "And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as ⁵the Gentiles do, for ⁶they think that they will be heard ⁷for their many words.

8 Do not be like them, ⁸for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

9 ⁹Pray then like this: ¹⁰"Our Father in heaven, ¹¹hallowed be ¹²your name.^[a]

10 ¹³Your kingdom come, ¹⁴your will be done,^[b] ¹⁵on earth as it is in heaven.

11 ¹⁶Give us ¹⁷this day our daily bread,^[c]

12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13 And ¹⁸lead us not into temptation, but ¹⁹deliver us from ²⁰evil.^[d]

14 ²¹For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

15 ²²but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Fasting

16 "And ²³when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. ²⁴Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

17 But when you fast, ²⁵anoint your head and wash your face,

18 that your fasting may not be seen by others but by your Father who is in secret. ²⁶And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Lay Up Treasures in Heaven

19 ²⁷"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where ²⁸moth and rust^[e] destroy and where thieves ²⁹break in and steal,

20 ³⁰but 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 ³¹"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,

23 ³²but if ³³your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

24 ³⁴"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 ³⁵money.^[f]

Do Not Be Anxious

25 ³⁶"Therefore I tell you, ³⁷do not be anxious 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 ³⁸Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. ³⁹Are you not of more value than they?

27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his ⁴⁰span of life?^[g]

28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,

29 yet I tell you, ⁴¹even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, ⁴²O you of little faith?

31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'

32 For ⁴³the Gentiles seek after all these things, and ⁴⁴your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

33 But ⁴⁵seek first ⁴⁶the kingdom of God and his righteousness, ⁴⁷and all these things will be added to you.

34 ⁴⁸"Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

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Cross References 48

1. Mark 11:25; Luke 18:11
2. ver. 2, 16
3. 2 Kings 4:33; Isaiah 26:20
4. ver. 4, 18
5. ver. 32; Matthew 5:47
6. 1 Kings 18:26
7. Proverbs 10:19; Ecclesiastes 5:2
8. ver. 32
9. For ver. 9-13, [Luke 11:2-4]
10. ver. 1
11. Isaiah 29:23; [Luke 1:49; 1 Peter 3:15]
12. John 17:6
13. [Matthew 3:2; Matthew 4:17]
14. Matthew 26:42; Luke 22:42; Acts 21:14; [Matthew 12:50; Hebrews 13:21]
15. Psalms 103:20, 21; Daniel 4:35
16. Proverbs 30:8
17. [ver. 34]
18. Matthew 26:41; Mark 14:38; Luke 22:40, 46; [1 Corinthians 10:13]
19. John 17:15; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; [2 Timothy 4:18]
20. See Matthew 13:19
21. Mark 11:25; Luke 6:37; Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13
22. Matthew 18:35; See James 2:13
23. Isaiah 58:5
24. ver. 2, 5
25. Ruth 3:3; 2 Samuel 12:20
26. ver. 4, 6
27. Matthew 19:21; Luke 12:21, 33, 34; Luke 18:22; 1 Tim. 6:9, 10, 17-19; Hebrews 13:5
28. James 5:2, 3
29. Matthew 24:43
30. [See ver. 19 above]
31. Luke 11:34, 35
32. [See ver. 22 above]
33. Matthew 20:15; Deuteronomy 15:9; Proverbs 28:22
34. Luke 16:13; [Romans 6:16; James 4:4]
35. Luke 16:9, 11, 13
36. For ver. 25-33, see Luke 12:22-31
37. ver. 27, 28, 31, 34; Matthew 10:19; Matthew 13:22(Gk.); 1 Corinthians 7:32(Gk.); Philippians 4:6; 1 Peter 5:7
38. [Job 38:41; Psalms 147:9]
39. Matthew 10:31
40. Luke 2:52
41. 1 Kings 10:4-7
42. Matthew 8:26; Matthew 14:31; Matthew 16:8; [Matthew 17:20]
43. ver. 7
44. ver. 8
45. [Matthew 5:6, 20]
46. ver. 10
47. [1 Kings 3:11-14; Mark 10:29, 30; 1 Timothy 4:8; 1 Peter 3:9]
48. [James 4:13, 14]

Footnotes 7

[a]. Or Let your name be kept holy, or Let your name be treated with reverence
[b]. Or Let your kingdom come, let your will be done
[c]. Or our bread for tomorrow
[d]. Or the evil one; some manuscripts add For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen
[e]. Or worm; also verse 20
[f]. Greek mammon, a Semitic word for money or possessions
[g]. Or a single cubit to his stature; a cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

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