Matthew 6:1-4

The Sermon on the Mount: Charitable Giving

1 "And take care not to practice your righteousness before people to be seen by them; {otherwise} you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

2 Therefore whenever you practice charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet in front of you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order that they may be praised by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!

3 But you, [when you] practice charitable giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

4 in order that your charitable giving may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "but if not"
• [b]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("practice") which is understood as temporal