1 Be careful not to perform your charitable deeds in front of people in order to be noticed by them; if you do, you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.
2 So whenever you give to the needy, do not blow a trumpet ahead of you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the lanes, so that people will praise them. Truly I say to you, they already have their reward in full.
3 But you, when you give to the needy, must not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
4 so that your giving will be done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will himself repay you openly.
5 And when you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the wide streets, so that people may see them. Truly I say to you, they already have their reward in full.
6 But as for you, when you pray, enter your private room, close your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you openly.
7 And in praying, do not pile up meaningless repetitions as the Gentiles do; they suppose that by saying a great deal they will be heard.
8 Do not be like them, then, for your Father knows what you have need of before you ask him.
9 This, then, is how you are to pray: Our Father who is in heaven, let your name be hallowed.
10 Let your kingdom come; let your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
11 Our daily bread give us today.
12 And forgive us our debts, just as we too forgive those indebted to us.
13 And do not bring us into temptation, but rescue us from evil. For the kingdom and the power and the glory are yours forever. Amen.
14 For if you forgive people their offenses, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well;
15 but if you do not forgive people their offenses, your Father will not forgive your offenses either.
16 Whenever you fast, do not put on a sad face as the hypocrites do; for they make their faces unsightly so that people will see that they are fasting. Truly I say to you, they already have their reward in full.
17 But you, when fasting, put oil on your head and wash your face,
18 so that it is not people who see you fasting but your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you openly.
19 Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves dig through and steal;
20 but store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not dig through or steal.
21 For wherever your treasure is, that is where your heart will be too.
22 The lamp of the body is the eye. If, then, your eye is clear, your whole body will be filled with light;
23 but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be filled with darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep that darkness is!
24 No one can serve two lords; either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to one and look down on the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
25 For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor for your body, what you will put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body more than the clothing?
26 Look closely at the birds of the sky: they do not sow or reap or gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Do you not matter much more than they do?
27 And who among you, by being anxious, can add one cubit to his height?
28 And why be anxious over clothing? Learn from the lilies of the field how they grow: they do not toil, and they do not spin;
29 but I say to you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of them.
30 Now if God dresses the wild grass in this way, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will he not much more dress you, you of little faith?
31 So do not be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we put on?'
32 For all these are the things the Gentiles strive for; for indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all of them.
33 Instead, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you as well.
34 So do not be anxious about tomorrow, since tomorrow will be anxious about its own things. Each day's own trouble is enough for it.