Matthew 6:1-34 Take heed not to practise your righteousness before men in order to be observed by them; otherwise you have no reward from your father who is in heaven.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Take heed not to practise your righteousness before men in order to be observed by them; otherwise you have no reward from your father who is in heaven. ² Therefore when thou dost an act of charity, sound not a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets that they may be extolled by men. Verily I say to you, they have their reward. ³ But when thou art doing an act of charity, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand is doing; ⁴ that thine act of charity may be in secret; and thy father who seeth in secret will himself reward thee openly. ⁵ And when thou prayest, be not like the hypocrites. Because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets that men may observe them; verily I say to you, They have their reward. ⁶ But as for thee, when thou wouldst pray, retire to thy closet, and having shut the door pray to thy father who is in secret, and thy father who seeth in secret will reward thee openly. ⁷ And when you pray, use not a vain multiplicity of words as the heathen do. For they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. ⁸ Be not ye therefore like them; for your father knoweth what things you have need of, before you ask him. ⁹ In this manner therefore pray ye, "Our Father, who art in the heavens, hallowed be thy name; ¹⁰ thy reign come; thy will be done on the earth, as it is in heaven; ¹¹ give us to day our daily bread; ¹² and forgive us our debts, as we do forgive our debtors; ¹³ and bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil [for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for the ages, amen. ¹⁴ For if you forgive men their offences, your heavenly father will also forgive you; ¹⁵ but if you do not forgive men their offences, neither will your father forgive your offences. ¹⁶ And when you fast, be not like the hypocrites, of a dismal countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that men may observe that they are fasting. Verily I say to you, They have their reward. ¹⁷ But when thou keepest a fast, anoint thy head and wash thy face, ¹⁸ that thy fasting may not appear to men, but to thy father who is in secret, and thy father who seeth in secret will reward thee openly. ¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where 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 and steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there will your heart also be. ²² The eye is the lamp of the body. If therefore thine eye be sound thy whole body will be enlightened: ²³ but if thine eye be distempered, thy whole body will be dark. If then the light which is in thee be darkness, how great will the darkness be! ²⁴ No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate one and love the other; or he will attend to one and neglect the other. You cannot serve God and a worldly temperent ²⁵ Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; nor about your body, what you shall wear. Is not life a greater gift than food; and the body, than raiment? ²⁶ Observe those birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap, nor lay up in granaries; yet your heavenly father feedeth them. Are not you much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Besides, which of you can by his anxiety prolong his life one hour? ²⁸ And with respect to raiment, why are you anxious? Consider those lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin: ²⁹ yet I affirm, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ Now if God thus arrayeth the herbage which is today in the field, and tomorrow to be cast into a furnace, will he not much more clothe you, O ye mistrustful? ³¹ Therefore be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat; or, what shall we drink; or, with what shall we be clothed? ³² For about all such things the nations are solicitous: for your heavenly father knoweth that you have need of all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness required by him, and all those things will be superadded to you. ³⁴ Wherefore be not anxious about the morrow; for the morrow will be anxious about its own concerns. Sufficient for every day is its own trouble.