To tell you the truth : They have their reward. But when you are fasting, Anoint your head and wash your face: So that you do not appear to men to be fasting, And your Father who sees in secret, Will reward you. Do not be laying up for yourselves treasures on earth, Where moth and rust consume And where thieves break through and steal. But be laying up for yourselves treasures in heaven, Where neither moth nor rust consume And where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where your treasure is, There will your heart be also. The light of the body is the eye. So if your eye is perfect Your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is diseased Your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light which is in you is darkness, How great is that darkness! No one can be serving two masters. For he will either hate the one, And love the other, Or else he will hold to the one, And despise the other. You cannot be serving God and money. So I tell you: Do not be anxious for your life, What you shall eat, or what you shall drink, Nor yet for your body what you shall put on. Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow, Nor do they reap, Nor gather into barns, And yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they? Which of you, by being anxious, Can add one hour to the length of his life? Why then are you anxious about clothes? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow. They do not toil, nor do they spin. Yet I tell you: Even Solomon in all his grandeur Was not clothed like one of these. If, then, God so clothes the grass of the field, 6:30. Which is to-day, And to-morrow is thrown into the oven, So do not be anxious, and say: What shall we eat? What shall we drink? With what shall we be clothed? For the heathen seek after all these things. things. But seek first the Kingdom of God and his goodness And all these things will be added to you. So do not be anxious about to-morrow, For to-morrow will have its own anxieties. Do not judge So that you may not be judged; With the measure you measure, Which is in your brother's eye, But do not consider the beam, Which is in your own eye? Or how shall you say to your brother, 7:4. Let me get the mote out of your eye; First get the beam out of your own eye, And then you will see clearly to get the mote out of your brother's eye. Do not give what is holy to the dogs, Keep asking and it will be given you. Keep knocking and it will be opened you. For he who keeps asking, receives, He who keeps seeking, finds, To him who keeps knocking it will be opened. For what man is there of you, who, If his son asks for a loaf, Will he give him a stone? Will he give him a serpent? If you, then, who are bad, know how To give good gifts to your children, How much more will your Father in Heaven Give good things to those who ask him. 7: 12. So every thing you would have men do to you, You do the same to them. For this is the law and the prophets. Enter in by the narrow gate. For wide is the gate, And broad the way which leads to destruction, And there are many who go in by it. And contracted the way which leads to life. Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, So every good tree bears good fruit. Not every one who says to me: Lord, Lord, will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. |