These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Matthew 6
Brit Hadashah 34 verses
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“But beware of doing your good actions in the sight of men, in order to attract their gaze; if you do, there is no reward for you with your Father who is in Heaven.
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Matthew 23:5 Hebrews 6:10 Galatians 6:12 John 12:43 Matthew 23:28-30 Luke 11:35 Matthew 25:40 Matthew 16:27 Matthew 6:4-6 Matthew 16:6 Psalm 112:9 Matthew 23:13 Luke 12:1 Zechariah 13:4 Matthew 10:41-42 Ezekiel 33:31 Matthew 6:16 Matthew 5:46 Deuteronomy 24:13 Zechariah 7:5 Matthew 6:9 Matthew 5:16 2 John 1:8 Mark 8:15 Daniel 4:27 Luke 12:15 1 Corinthians 9:17-18 2 Corinthians 9:9-10 Matthew 5:48 2 Kings 10:16 Hebrews 2:1 Hebrews 11:26 2 Kings 10:31 Luke 16:15 John 5:44 -
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When you give in , never blow a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and streets in order that their praises may be sung by men. I solemnly tell you that they already have their reward.
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Matthew 6:5 Matthew 6:16 Acts 11:29 Luke 12:33 Isaiah 9:17 Ephesians 4:28 James 2:15-16 Ecclesiastes 11:2 1 Samuel 15:30 Proverbs 19:17 Acts 10:2 Luke 12:56 1 Thessalonians 2:6 Matthew 23:6 Proverbs 20:6 Isaiah 58:10-12 Isaiah 58:7 Matthew 24:51 Matthew 7:5 Psalm 112:9 Galatians 2:10 Mark 12:39 Matthew 16:3 Luke 11:43 Isaiah 10:6 Hebrews 13:16 Job 31:16-20 Matthew 22:18 John 7:18 Acts 10:31 Luke 20:46 Luke 6:24 Romans 12:8 1 Timothy 6:18 Acts 9:36 Acts 24:17 Luke 11:41 John 13:29 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 Luke 6:42 Philemon 1:7 Matthew 15:7 John 5:41 1 Peter 4:11 1 John 3:17-19 Acts 10:4 Matthew 5:18 Mark 7:6 Hosea 8:1 Psalm 37:21 John 5:44 Matthew 23:13-29 Luke 13:15 -
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But when you are giving in , let not your left hand perceive what your right hand is doing,
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- 4 that your charities may be in secret; and then your Father—He who sees in secret—will recompense you.
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“And when praying, you must not be like the hypocrites. They are fond of standing and praying in the synagogues or at the corners of the wider streets, in order that men may see them. I solemnly tell you that they already have their reward.
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Matthew 6:2 Luke 18:10-11 Mark 11:25 Luke 18:1 Luke 14:12-14 Matthew 7:7-8 Proverbs 15:8 Isaiah 1:15 Job 27:8-10 Ephesians 6:18 Jeremiah 29:12 Daniel 9:4-19 Isaiah 55:6-7 Matthew 9:38 Luke 11:43 Mark 12:38 Matthew 6:16 Matthew 21:22 Luke 18:13 Psalm 5:2 Daniel 6:10 Matthew 23:13 Proverbs 16:5 Matthew 23:6 Psalm 55:17 Colossians 4:2-3 Luke 20:47 John 16:24 James 4:6 1 Thessalonians 5:17 James 5:15-16 - 6 But you, whenever you pray, go into your own room and shut the door: then pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father—He who sees in secret—will recompense you.
- 7 “And when praying, do not use needless repetitions as the Gentiles do, for they expect to be listened to because of their multitude of words.
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Do not, however, imitate them; for your Father knows what things you need before ever you ask Him.
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“In this manner therefore pray: ‘Our Father who art in Heaven, may Thy be kept ;
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Ezekiel 36:23 Luke 11:1-4 Malachi 1:11 Matthew 7:11 Zechariah 14:9 Habakkuk 2:14 Isaiah 57:15 Romans 8:15 Leviticus 10:3 Revelation 4:11 Isaiah 37:20 Isaiah 6:3 1 Chronicles 17:24 1 Kings 8:43 Psalm 115:3 2 Chronicles 20:6 Psalm 111:9 Psalm 72:18 Nehemiah 9:5 2 Samuel 7:26 Matthew 5:16 1 Timothy 6:16 Romans 1:7 Luke 15:21 Galatians 4:6 Matthew 26:29 Ezekiel 38:23 Matthew 6:14 Revelation 5:12 Galatians 1:1 Isaiah 66:1 1 Peter 1:17 Matthew 6:6 Matthew 26:42 Luke 2:14 Luke 15:18 Matthew 10:29 John 20:17 Isaiah 64:8 Matthew 23:9 Isaiah 63:16 -
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let Thy come; let Thy will be done, as in Heaven so on earth;
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Matthew 3:2 1 Thessalonians 5:18 1 Peter 2:15 Matthew 12:50 Matthew 26:42 John 4:34 Hebrews 10:36 Ephesians 6:6 Matthew 7:21 Romans 12:2 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Hebrews 13:21 John 6:40 Psalm 40:8 Hebrews 10:7 1 Peter 4:2 Colossians 1:9 Psalm 103:19-21 Acts 21:14 John 7:17 Acts 13:22 Matthew 4:17 Nehemiah 9:6 Daniel 4:35 Mark 3:35 Luke 22:42 Revelation 12:10 Revelation 19:6 Revelation 20:4 Luke 19:11 Daniel 2:44 Isaiah 2:2 Matthew 16:28 Jeremiah 23:5 Acts 22:14 Daniel 7:27 Daniel 7:13 Luke 19:38 Colossians 1:13 Hebrews 1:14 Psalm 2:6 Revelation 11:15 Zechariah 9:9 Mark 11:10 - 11 give us to-day our bread for the day;
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and forgive us our shortcomings, as we also have forgiven those who have failed in their duty towards us;
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and bring us not into temptation, but rescue us from the Evil one.’
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1 Corinthians 10:13 John 17:15 Matthew 26:41 Jeremiah 15:21 Matthew 6:10 1 Thessalonians 1:10 1 Chronicles 16:36 2 Corinthians 1:20 2 Peter 2:9 1 John 3:8 Revelation 21:4 Psalm 47:7 Deuteronomy 8:16 Exodus 15:18 Deuteronomy 27:15-26 1 Chronicles 29:11 Psalm 10:16 Proverbs 30:8 Luke 22:31-46 Numbers 5:22 1 Kings 1:36 1 Chronicles 4:10 Galatians 1:4 Revelation 7:14-17 1 John 5:18-19 2 Corinthians 12:7-9 Matthew 28:20 2 Thessalonians 3:3 Psalm 41:13 Deuteronomy 8:2 Genesis 22:1 2 Timothy 4:17-18 1 Peter 5:8 Psalm 47:2 Psalm 89:52 Psalm 121:7-8 Hebrews 2:14-15 Daniel 4:25 Revelation 19:4 Daniel 7:18 Hebrews 11:36 Psalm 106:48 Revelation 5:13 Revelation 2:10 Psalm 145:10-13 1 Timothy 6:15-17 1 Timothy 1:17 Revelation 19:1 Psalm 72:19 Revelation 3:14 Revelation 1:18 Daniel 4:34-35 Revelation 3:10 Jeremiah 28:6 Matthew 5:37 1 Corinthians 14:16 -
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“For if you forgive others their offences, your Heavenly Father will forgive you also;
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but if you do not forgive others their offences, neither will your Father forgive yours.
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“When any of you fast, never assume gloomy looks as the hypocrites do; for they disfigure their faces in order that it may be evident to men that they are fasting. I solemnly tell you that they already have their reward.
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Isaiah 58:3-5 Matthew 6:2 Matthew 6:5 Luke 18:12 Psalm 69:10 Psalm 35:13 1 Kings 21:27 Zechariah 7:3-5 1 Corinthians 7:5 2 Samuel 12:21 Luke 2:37 Esther 4:16 Acts 10:30 Psalm 109:24 Matthew 9:14-15 Nehemiah 1:4 Malachi 3:14 2 Samuel 12:16 Mark 2:18 Daniel 9:3 Acts 14:23 2 Corinthians 6:5 Acts 13:2-3 2 Corinthians 11:27 -
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But, whenever you fast, pour perfume on your hair and wash your face,
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that it may not be apparent to men that you are fasting, but to your Father who is in secret; and your Father—He who sees in secret—will recompense you.
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- 19 “Do not lay up stores of wealth for yourselves on earth, where the moth and wear-and-tear destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
- 20 But amass wealth for yourselves in Heaven, where neither the moth nor wear-and-tear destroys, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
- 21 For where your wealth is, there also will your be.
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“The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eyesight is good, your whole body will be well lighted;
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but if your eyesight is bad, your whole body will be dark. If however the very light within you is darkness, how dense must the darkness be!
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1 Corinthians 1:18-20 Matthew 6:22 Romans 2:17-23 Isaiah 5:20-21 Jeremiah 4:22 Isaiah 44:18-20 1 John 2:11 Revelation 3:17-18 John 9:39-41 Isaiah 8:20 Ephesians 5:8 Ephesians 4:18 Proverbs 26:12 Luke 8:10 Matthew 20:15 Jeremiah 8:8-9 Romans 1:22 1 Corinthians 2:14 1 Corinthians 3:18-19 Matthew 23:16-28 Mark 7:22 - 24 “No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach himself to one and think slightingly of the other. You cannot be the bondservants both of and of gold.
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For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your lives, inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on. Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing?
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- 26 Look at the birds which fly in the air: they do not sow or reap or store up in barns, but your Heavenly Father feeds them: are not you of much greater value than they?
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Which of you by being over-anxious can add a single foot to his height?
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And why be anxious about clothing? Learn a lesson from the wild lilies. Watch their growth. They neither toil nor spin,
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and yet I tell you that not even in all his magnificence could array himself like one of these.
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- 30 And if so clothes the wild herbage which to-day flourishes and to-morrow is thrown into the oven, is it not much more certain that He will clothe you, you men of little ?
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Do not be over-anxious, therefore, asking ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
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- 32 For all these are questions that Gentiles are always asking; but your Heavenly Father knows that you need these things—all of them.
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But make His Kingdom and your chief aim, and then these things shall all be given you in addition.
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Matthew 5:6 Luke 12:31 John 6:27 Mark 10:29-30 Psalm 34:9-10 Proverbs 3:9-10 Psalm 84:11-12 Proverbs 2:1-9 Romans 14:17 Psalm 37:18-19 Psalm 37:25 2 Chronicles 31:20-21 Psalm 37:3 2 Corinthians 5:21 Matthew 19:29 1 Kings 3:11-13 Colossians 1:13-14 Romans 1:17 1 Timothy 4:8 Romans 8:31 1 Corinthians 1:30 Haggai 1:2-11 Luke 18:29-30 Matthew 3:2 Romans 3:21-22 Philippians 3:9 1 Kings 17:13 Matthew 13:44-46 2 Peter 1:11 Haggai 2:16-19 Matthew 4:17 2 Thessalonians 1:5 2 Chronicles 1:7-12 1 Corinthians 3:22 Acts 28:31 Jeremiah 23:6 Leviticus 25:20-21 Luke 1:6 Isaiah 45:24 Romans 10:3 2 Peter 1:1 Acts 20:25 - 34 Do not be over-anxious, therefore, about to-morrow, for to-morrow will bring its own cares. Enough for each day are its own troubles.