- But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.
- This, then, is how you should pray:
‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.’ - Give us today our daily bread.
- And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors. - And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one. - For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
- But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.
- When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
- But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
- Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
- For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
- Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
- Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
- Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
- Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
- Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
- So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
- Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
- Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
- Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
- Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.”See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.Next verse!With image