Concerning Almsgiving

1“Take care not to be doing your charitable giving before men, so as to be seen by them. Otherwise, you have not a reward from your Father in heaven.

2Whenever therefore you do charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by men. Assuredly I say to you, they receive their reward in full.

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

4so that your charitable giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will Himself reward you openly.

Concerning Prayer

5“And whenever you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues, and on the street corners, so that they may be seen by men. Assuredly I say to you, that they receive their reward in full.

6But you, whenever you pray, enter into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you openly.

7But when you pray, do not babble like the heathen, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

8Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows what things you have need of before you ask Him.

9Therefore pray in this manner:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.

10Your kingdom come,
Your will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.

11Give us this day our daily bread.

12And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.

13And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

14“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

15But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Concerning Fasting

16“Moreover, when you fast, do not become gloomy, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly I say to you, that they receive their reward in full.

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

18so 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.

Concerning Treasures

19“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves dig through and steal;

20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupts, and where thieves do not dig through and steal.

21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The Sound Eye

22“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

23But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Serving Two Masters

24“No one is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and he will love the other, or else he will be devoted to the one, and he will despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Do Not Worry

25“Because of this I say to you, do not worry about your life—what you shall eat, or what you shall drink—nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

26Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap, nor do they gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they?

27Which of you by worrying is able to add one cubit to his stature?

28“So why do you worry about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither labor, nor spin;

29and yet I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of these.

30But if God thus clothes the grass of the field, which exists today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we put on?’

32For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own affairs. Each day has enough trouble of its own.