Matthew 6

1“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.Cross-references: Deut 24:13 · 2Ki 10:16 · 2Ki 10:31 · Ps 112:9 · Ezek 33:31 · Dan 4:27 · +29 more

2Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.Cross-references: 1Sam 15:30 · Job 31:16 · Ps 37:21 · Ps 112:9 · Prov 19:17 · Prov 20:6 · +47 more

3But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,Cross-references: Matt 8:4 · Matt 9:30 · Matt 12:19 · Mark 1:44 · John 7:4

4so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:30 · Ps 17:3 · Ps 44:21 · Ps 139:1 · Ps 139:12 · Jer 17:10 · +11 more

5“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.Cross-references: Job 27:8 · Ps 5:2 · Ps 55:17 · Prov 15:8 · Prov 16:5 · Isa 1:15 · +25 more

6But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.Cross-references: Gen 32:24 · 2Ki 4:33 · Ps 34:15 · Isa 26:20 · Isa 65:24 · Matt 6:4 · +10 more

7In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:26 · 1Ki 18:26 · Eccl 5:2 · Eccl 5:7 · Dan 9:18 · Matt 6:32 · +5 more

8Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him.Cross-references: Ps 38:9 · Ps 69:17 · Matt 6:32 · Luke 12:30 · John 16:23 · Phil 4:6

9Pray like this: “‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.Cross-references: Lev 10:3 · 2Sam 7:26 · 1Ki 8:43 · 1Chr 17:24 · 2Chr 20:6 · Neh 9:5 · +36 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

10Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.Cross-references: Neh 9:6 · Ps 2:6 · Ps 40:8 · Ps 103:19 · Isa 2:2 · Jer 23:5 · +38 more

11Give us today our daily bread.Cross-references: Ex 16:16 · Job 23:12 · Ps 33:18 · Ps 34:10 · Prov 30:8 · Isa 33:16 · +5 more

12Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.Cross-references: Ex 34:7 · 1Ki 8:30 · 1Ki 8:34 · 1Ki 8:39 · 1Ki 8:50 · Neh 5:12 · +16 more

13Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’Cross-references: Gen 22:1 · Ex 15:18 · Num 5:22 · Deut 8:2 · Deut 8:16 · Deut 27:15 · +50 more

14“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.Cross-references: Prov 21:13 · Matt 6:12 · Matt 7:2 · Matt 18:21 · Mark 11:25 · Eph 4:32 · +3 more

15But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.Cross-references: Matt 18:35

16“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.Cross-references: 2Sam 12:16 · 2Sam 12:21 · 1Ki 21:27 · Neh 1:4 · Esth 4:16 · Ps 35:13 · +18 more

17But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,Cross-references: Ruth 3:3 · 2Sam 12:20 · 2Sam 14:2 · Eccl 9:8 · Dan 10:2

18so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.Cross-references: Matt 6:4 · Matt 6:6 · Rom 2:6 · 2Cor 5:9 · 2Cor 10:18 · Col 3:22 · +2 more

19“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;Cross-references: Job 31:24 · Ps 39:6 · Ps 62:10 · Prov 11:4 · Prov 16:16 · Prov 23:4 · +13 more

20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;Cross-references: Isa 33:6 · Matt 19:21 · Luke 12:33 · Luke 18:22 · 1Tim 6:17 · 1Tim 6:19 · +6 more

21for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.Cross-references: Prov 4:23 · Isa 33:6 · Jer 4:14 · Jer 22:17 · Matt 12:34 · Luke 12:34 · +7 more

22“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.Cross-references: Luke 11:34 · Acts 2:46 · 2Cor 11:3 · Eph 6:5 · Col 3:22

23But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!Cross-references: Prov 26:12 · Isa 5:20 · Isa 8:20 · Isa 44:18 · Jer 4:22 · Jer 8:8 · +15 more

24“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.Cross-references: Josh 24:15 · Josh 24:19 · 1Sam 7:3 · 1Ki 18:21 · 2Ki 17:33 · 2Ki 17:41 · +13 more

25Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?Cross-references: Ps 55:22 · Matt 5:22 · Matt 6:27 · Matt 6:31 · Matt 6:34 · Matt 10:19 · +15 more

26See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?Cross-references: Gen 1:29 · Job 35:11 · Job 38:41 · Ps 104:11 · Ps 104:27 · Ps 145:15 · +6 more

27“Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?Cross-references: Ps 39:5 · Eccl 3:14 · Matt 5:36 · Luke 12:25 · 1Cor 12:18

28Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,Cross-references: Matt 6:25 · Matt 6:31 · Matt 10:10 · Luke 3:11 · Luke 12:27 · Luke 22:35 · +1 more

29yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.Cross-references: 1Ki 10:4 · 2Chr 9:4 · 2Chr 9:20 · 1Tim 2:9 · 1Pet 3:2

30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?Cross-references: Ps 90:5 · Ps 92:7 · Isa 40:6 · Matt 8:26 · Matt 14:31 · Matt 16:8 · +9 more

31“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’Cross-references: Lev 25:20 · 2Chr 25:9 · Ps 37:3 · Ps 55:22 · Ps 78:18 · Matt 4:4 · +3 more

32For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.Cross-references: Ps 17:14 · Ps 103:13 · Matt 5:46 · Matt 6:8 · Matt 20:25 · Luke 11:11 · +3 more

33But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.Cross-references: Lev 25:20 · 1Ki 3:11 · 1Ki 17:13 · 2Chr 1:7 · 2Chr 31:20 · Ps 34:9 · +36 more

34Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.Cross-references: Ex 16:18 · Deut 33:25 · 1Ki 17:4 · 1Ki 17:14 · 2Ki 7:1 · Lam 3:23 · +8 more