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“Be careful not to do your acts of mercy in front of people just so they will notice you. If that is your motive, you should not expect a reward from your Father in heaven.
KJV
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Prosechete tēn eleēmosynēn hymōn mē poiein emprosthen tōn anthrōpōn, pros to theathēnai autois; ei de mēge, misthon ouk echete para tō patri hymōn tō en tois ouranois.
So when you give to someone in need, do not announce it like the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth: they already have all the reward they are going to get.
KJV
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. They love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth: they already have their reward.
KJV
¶ And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Kai hotan proseuchē, ouk esē hōsper hoi hypokritai, hoti philousin en tais synagōgais kai en tais gōniais tōn plateiōn hestōtes proseuchesthai, hopōs an phanōsin tois anthrōpois; amēn legō hymin hoti apechousin ton misthon autōn.
But when you pray, go into a private room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is unseen. Your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you openly.
KJV
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Sy de, hotan proseuchē, eiselthe eis to tamieion sou, kai kleisas tēn thyran sou, proseuxai tō patri sou tō en tō kryptō; kai ho patēr sou ho blepōn en tō kryptō apodōsei soi en tō phanerō.
When you fast, do not make yourself look miserable like the hypocrites do. They neglect their appearance so everyone will notice that they are fasting. I tell you the truth: they already have their reward.
KJV
¶ Moreover 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.
so that your fasting is not obvious to other people but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
KJV
That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
But if your eye is corrupt, your whole body will be filled with darkness. And if the light within you is actually darkness, how great that darkness is!
KJV
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
No one can serve two masters. You will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and wealth.
KJV
¶ No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Oudeis dynatai dysin kyriois douleuein; ē gar ton hena misēsei, kai ton heteron agapēsei; ē henos anthexetai, kai tou heterou kataphronēsei. Ou dynasthe theō douleuein kai mamōna.
That is why I tell you: do not be consumed with worry about your life—what you will eat or what you will drink—or about your body and what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
KJV
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Dia touto legō hymin, mē merimnate tē psychē hymōn, ti phagēte kai ti piēte; mēde tō sōmati hymōn, ti endysēsthe. Ouchi hē psychē pleion estin tēs trophēs, kai to sōma tou endymatos?
Look at the birds in the sky. They do not plant crops, harvest them, or gather food into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth far more than they are?
KJV
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Emblepsate eis ta peteina tou ouranou, hoti ou speirousin, oude therizousin, oude synagousin eis apothēkas, kai ho patēr hymōn ho ouranios trephei auta; ouch hymeis mallon diapherete autōn?
If God clothes the grass of the field this way—grass that is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow—will He not care for you far more, you of little faith?
KJV
Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?