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&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;large&semi;"> Matthew 6<&sol;span><br &sol;><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;large&semi;">Giving to the Needy<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>6 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them&period; If you do&comma; you will have no reward from your Father in heaven&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>2 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So when you give to the needy&comma; do not announce it with trumpets&comma; as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets&comma; to be honored by others&period; Truly I tell you&comma; they have received their reward in full&period; 3 But when you give to the needy&comma; do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing&comma; 4 so that your giving may be in secret&period; Then your Father&comma; who sees what is done in secret&comma; will reward you&period;<&sol;span><br &sol;><a name&equals;'more'><&sol;a><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;large&semi;"><br &sol;> <&sol;span><br &sol;><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;large&semi;">Prayer<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>5 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And when you pray&comma; do not be like the hypocrites&comma; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others&period; Truly I tell you&comma; they have received their reward in full&period; 6 But when you pray&comma; go into your room&comma; close the door and pray to your Father&comma; who is unseen&period; Then your Father&comma; who sees what is done in secret&comma; will reward you&period; 7 And when you pray&comma; do not keep on babbling like pagans&comma; for they think they will be heard because of their many words&period; 8 Do not be like them&comma; for your Father knows what you need before you ask him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>9 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This&comma; then&comma; is how you should pray&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-large&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&OpenCurlyQuote;Our Father in heaven&comma;<br &sol;>hallowed be your name&comma;<br &sol;>10 <br &sol;>your kingdom come&comma;<br &sol;>your will be done&comma;<br &sol;>    on earth as it is in heaven&period;<br &sol;>11 <br &sol;>Give us today our daily bread&period;<br &sol;>12 <br &sol;>And forgive us our debts&comma;<br &sol;>    as we also have forgiven our debtors&period;<br &sol;>13 <br &sol;>And lead us not into temptation&comma;&lbrack;a&rsqb;<br &sol;>    but deliver us from the evil one&period;&lbrack;b&rsqb;’<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against you&comma; your heavenly Father will also forgive you&period; 15 But if you do not forgive others their sins&comma; your Father will not forgive your sins&period;<br &sol;>Fasting<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>16 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When you fast&comma; do not look somber as the hypocrites do&comma; for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting&period; Truly I tell you&comma; they have received their reward in full&period; 17 But when you fast&comma; put oil on your head and wash your face&comma; 18 so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting&comma; but only to your Father&comma; who is unseen&semi; and your Father&comma; who sees what is done in secret&comma; will reward you&period;<br &sol;>Treasures in Heaven<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>19 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth&comma; where moths and vermin destroy&comma; and where thieves break in and steal&period; 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven&comma; where moths and vermin do not destroy&comma; and where thieves do not break in and steal&period; 21 For where your treasure is&comma; there your heart will be also&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>22 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The eye is the lamp of the body&period; If your eyes are healthy&comma;&lbrack;c&rsqb; your whole body will be full of light&period; 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy&comma;&lbrack;d&rsqb; your whole body will be full of darkness&period; If then the light within you is darkness&comma; how great is that darkness&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>24 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No one can serve two masters&period; Either you will hate the one and love the other&comma; or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other&period; You cannot serve both God and money&period;<br &sol;>Do Not Worry<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>25 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Therefore I tell you&comma; do not worry about your life&comma; what you will eat or drink&semi; or about your body&comma; what you will wear&period; Is not life more than food&comma; and the body more than clothes&quest; 26 Look at the birds of the air&semi; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns&comma; and yet your heavenly Father feeds them&period; Are you not much more valuable than they&quest; 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life&lbrack;e&rsqb;&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>28 &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;And why do you worry about clothes&quest; See how the flowers of the field grow&period; They do not labor or spin&period; 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these&period; 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field&comma; which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire&comma; will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith&quest; 31 So do not worry&comma; saying&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;What shall we eat&quest;’ or &OpenCurlyQuote;What shall we drink&quest;’ or &OpenCurlyQuote;What shall we wear&quest;’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things&comma; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them&period; 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness&comma; and all these things will be given to you as well&period; 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow&comma; for tomorrow will worry about itself&period; Each day has enough trouble of its own<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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