your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.'
14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also
forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will
your Father forgive your trespasses.
16 "And when you fast, do not look gloomy, like the hypocrites,
for they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting.
Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But when you fast,
anoint your head and wash your face, 18 so that you do not appear to be
fasting to men, but to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who
sees in secret will reward you.
19 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth
and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and
where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also. 22 The lamp of the body is the eye. So if
your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye
is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is
darkness, how great is that darkness! 24 No one can serve two masters;
for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to
the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you
will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put
on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look
at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and
yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than
they? 27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his span of life?
28 And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you that even
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Now if God
so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown
into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31
Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we
drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these
things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But
seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be
given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for
tomorrow will worry about itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
7
1 "Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the same
judgment you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you
use, it will be measured to you.
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