Matthew 6
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
1Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven.
2So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
2Therefore when thou dost an almsdeed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.
3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
3But when thou dost alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth.
4so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
4That thy alms may be in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee.
5And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
5And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.
6But when you pray, go into your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
6But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee.
7And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.
7And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard.
8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
8Be not you therefore like to them, for your Father knoweth what is needful for you, before you ask him.
9So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.
9Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
10Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
10Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
11Give us this day our daily bread.
11Give us this day our supersubstantial bread.
12And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
12And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
13And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’
13And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.
14For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
14For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also your offences.
15But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.
15But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your offences.
16When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
16And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.
17But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
17But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face;
18so that your fasting will not be obvious to men, but only to your Father, who is unseen. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
18That thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will repay thee.
19Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
19Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through and steal.
20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
20But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal.
21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
21For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also.
22The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.
22The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be lightsome.
23But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
23But if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall be darksome. If then the light that is in thee, be darkness: the darkness itself how great shall it be!
24No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
24No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
25Therefore 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?
25Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?
26Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
26Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?
27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
27And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature by one cubit?
28And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.
28And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin.
29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
29But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.
30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
30And if the grass of the field, which is today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith?
31Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
31Be not solicitous therefore, saying, What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed?
32For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
32For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things.
33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
33Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.
34Be not therefore solicitous for tomorrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.
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