Matthew 6:8-32

8Don’t be like them, because your Father knows the things you need before you ask him.

9“Therefore, you should pray like this: Our Father in heaven, your name be honored as holy.

10Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

11Give us today our daily bread.

12And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

13And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

14“For if you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will forgive you as well.

15But if you don’t forgive others, your Father will not forgive your offenses.

16“Whenever you fast, don’t be gloomy like the hypocrites. For they disfigure their faces so that their fasting is obvious to people. Truly I tell you, they have their reward.

17But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,

18so that your fasting isn’t obvious to others but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

19“Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal.

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

22“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

23But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!

24“No one can serve two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

25“Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

26Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?

27Can any of you add one moment to his life span by worrying?

28And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread.

29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these.

30If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you — you of little faith?

31So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat? ’ or ‘What will we drink? ’ or ‘What will we wear?’

32For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.