treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust spoils, nor thieves dig through 21 nor steal; for where your treasure is 22 there will be also your heart. The lamp of the body is the eye; if, therefore, thine eye be single thy whole body shall be 23 light but if thine eye be wicked thy whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light that [is] in thee be darkness, 24 how great the darkness. No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mam25 mon. For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body, what ye should put on. Is not the life more than 26 meat, and the body than raiment? Look at the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, nor reap, nor gather into granaries, and your heavenly Father nourishes them. Are ye not much more excellent than 27 they? But which of you by carefulness can add to his age one cubit? And why

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are you careful about clothing? Observe with attention the lilies of the field how they grow, they toil not, neither do they 29 spin; but I say unto you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these. But if God so clothe the herbage of the field which is to-day, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, will he not much rather you, O [ye] of little 31 faith? Be not therefore careful, saying, What shall we eat, or what shall we 32 drink, or what shall we put on, for all these things the nations seek after; for your heavenly Father knows that ye 33 have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall 34 be added unto you. Be not careful

therefore for the morrow, for the morrow shall be careful about its own things. Sufficient unto the day is its [own] evil. VII. Judge not that ye may not be judged; for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete it shall be meaasured to you. But why lookest thou on

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the mote that is in the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer that I cast out the mote from thine eye; and, lo, the beam is in thine eye? Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the mote out of the eye of thy brother.

Give not that [which] is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the pigs, lest they trample them with their ' feet, and turning round rend you. Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be ⚫ opened to you. For every one that asks receives; and every one that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you who, if his son shall ask of him a loaf 10 of bread,* will give him a stone; and if he ask a fish, will give him a serpent? If therefore ye, being wicked, know

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[how] to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father which is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?

Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do ye also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are they 14 who enter in through it. For narrow* the gate and straitened the way which leads to life, and they are few who find

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But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but 16 within are ravening wolves. By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs? So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worth18 less tree produces bad fruits. A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a

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19 worthless tree produce good fruits. Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down 20 and cast into the fire. So, then, by their fruits you shall know them.

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Not every one who says to me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father which [is] in the heavens. 22 Many shall say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied through thy name, and through thy name have cast out demons, and through thy name 23 have done many works of power? and then will I avow unto them, I have never known you. Depart from me, workers of lawlessness.

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Whosoever, therefore, hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house 25 upon the* rock; and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds

*Here the article has the force of contrast as noticed as to opos, πλoιos, already. As in English, though the cases are more rare, we say, 'on the way,' 'the wayside.' The sand, in English, is used as here, and may fairly justify the rock— that which has that nature.