¹ But take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen by them; otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

² Therefore when thou doest 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. Truly do I say to you, They have received their reward.

³ But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth;

⁴ that thine alms may be in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will reward thee.

⁵ And when ye pray, ye shall 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 by men. Truly do I say to you, They have received their reward.

⁶ But do thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and, when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will reward thee.

⁷ But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for the multitude of their words.

⁸ Be not ye therefore like them; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

⁹ After this manner therefore pray ye:—Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name;

¹⁰ thy kingdom come; thy 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 also have forgiven our debtors;

¹³ and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

¹⁴ For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you;

¹⁵ but if ye do not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

¹⁶ Moreover, when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly do I say to you, They have received their reward.

¹⁷ But do thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and wash thy face;

¹⁸ that thou appear not to men to be fasting, but to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will reward thee.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where the moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

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

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

²² The eye is the lamp of the body. If thine eye he clear, thy whole body will be in light;

²³ but if thine eye be disordered, thy whole body will be in darkness. If then the light that is within thee is darkness, how great that darkness!

²⁴ No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate one, and love the other; or else he will cleave to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

²⁵ Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

²⁶ Behold the birds of the air, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much greater value than they?

²⁷ But who of you by anxious thought can add to his life one cubit?

²⁸ And why are ye anxious about raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin;

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

³⁰ And if God so clothes the herbage of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into an oven, will he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

³¹ Therefore be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we he clothed?

³² For after all these things do the gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

³³ But seek first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will also be given you.

³⁴ Be not then anxious about the morrow; for the morrow will be anxious about itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.