ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, since we have forgiven those indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation [or, bring us not into trial], but deliver us from evil. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

And when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto. men to fast, but unto thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will reward thee.

CHAPTER VI.

LAY not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, 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: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body will be bright. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

No man can entirely serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, Take no anxious thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye

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shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? Look at the birds of the air: they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking anxious thought can add one cubit to his stature? And why take ye anxious thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no anxious thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, What shall we put on? (for after all these things the Gentiles seek) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you. Take therefore no anxious thought for the morrow: for the morrow will

take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

CHAPTER VII.

JUDGE not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye will be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it will be measured to you. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and ye will find; knock, and it will be opened unto you for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it will be opened. Or what man is there among you, who if his son shall ask for

bread, will give him a stone? Or if he shall ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him? Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Enter ye in at the strait [i.e. narrow or small] gate for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be who go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are greedy wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a bad tree bringeth forth bad fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth bad fruit, nor a bad tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and