Matthew 6:16-34 ▼

16 And when you? may fast, do not be as the hypocrites, gloomy-faced; for they disfigure their faces so that they might appear to men as fasting. Truly I say to you?, they have their reward in full.

17 But you, fasting, anoint your head and wash your face,

18 so that you might not appear to men as fasting, but to your Father, the One in secret. And your Father, the One seeing in secret, will reward you.

19 Do not treasure up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break in and steal.

20 But treasure up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust disfigure, and where thieves do not break in, nor do they steal.

21 For where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.

22 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

24 No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and he will love the other, or he will hold to one and he will despise the other. You? are not able to serve God and mammon.

25 Because of this I say to you?, do not be anxious for your? life, what you? might eat or what you? might drink, nor for your? body, what you? might put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

26 Look at the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor do they reap, nor do they gather into barns, and your? heavenly Father feeds them. Are you? not much more valuable than they?

27 And who of you?, being anxious, is able to add to his lifespan one cubit?

28 And why are you? anxious about clothing? Consider carefully the lilies of the field, how they grow: They do not labor, nor do they spin.

29 Yet I say to you? that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these.

30 But if God thus clothes the grass of the field, being today and tomorrow being thrown into the furnace, will He not much more you?, O little of faith?

31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘With what shall we be clothed?’

32 For the nations seek after all these things. For your? heavenly Father knows that you? have need of all of these.

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you?.

34 Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient to the day is its evil.