Moreover when ye fast, be not sad as the hypocrites are. For they
disfigure their faces, that it might appear unto men that they fast.
Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But thou when thou
fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face, that it appear not unto
men how that thou fastest: but unto thy father which is in secret: and
thy father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
Gather not treasure together on earth, where rust and moths corrupt,
and where thieves break through and steal. But gather ye treasures
together in heaven, where neither rust, nor yet moths corrupt: and
where thieves neither break up, nor yet steal. For wheresoever your
treasure is, there are your hearts also.
The light of the body is thine eye. Wherefore if thine eye be single,
all thy body is full of light. But and if thine eye be wicked, then is
all thy body full of darkness. Wherefore if the light that is in thee,
be darkness: how great is that darkness?
No man can serve two masters. For either he shall hate the one, and
love the other: or else he shall lean to the one, and despise that
other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say unto you, be not
careful for your life what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor
yet for your body, what raiment ye shall wear. Is not the life more
worth then meat? and the body more of value then raiment? Behold the
fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither reap, nor yet carry into
the barns, and yet your heavenly father feedeth them. Are ye not better
than they?
Which of you (though he took thought therefore) could put one cubit
unto his stature? And why care ye then for raiment? Behold the lilies
of the field, how they grow. They labor not, neither spin. And yet for
all that I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his royalty, was not
arrayed like unto one of these. Wherefore if God so clothe the grass,
which is today in the field, and tomorrow shall be cast into the
furnace: shall he not much more do the same unto you, o ye of little
faith?
Therefore take no thought saying: what shall we eat, or what shall we
drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? (After all these things seek
the gentiles) For your heavenly father knoweth that ye have need of all
these things. But rather seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and the
righteousness thereof, and all these things shall be ministered unto
you. Care not therefore for the day folowing. For the day folowing
shall care for itself. Each days trouble is sufficient for the sameself
day.
The .vij. Chapter.
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