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Matthew 6:11“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 23:5John 12:43Heb 6:10Matt 23:28-30Luke 16:15Gal 6:12Matt 6:4-6Ezek 33:31John 5:442 John 1:8

Matthew 6:22Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 6:5Matt 6:162 Cor 9:6-15Jas 2:15-16John 5:411 John 3:17-19Heb 13:16John 7:18Luke 20:461 Pet 4:11

Matthew 6:33But when you do your giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 7:4Matt 9:30Mark 1:44Matt 12:19

Matthew 6:44so that your gift may be in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 6:18Matt 6:6Jer 17:10Luke 14:14Ps 44:21Matt 25:34-40Jer 23:24Luke 8:171 Sam 2:30Matt 10:42

Matthew 6:55“Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 18:10-11Matt 6:2Luke 18:13Mark 11:25Isa 55:6-7Jer 29:12Isa 1:15Jas 4:6Dan 6:10Luke 18:1

Matthew 6:66But whenever you pray, go into your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 4:33Matt 14:23Isa 65:24Acts 9:40Ps 34:15Isa 26:20Matt 6:18Matt 26:36-39Acts 10:9Matt 6:4

Matthew 6:77When you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the Gentiles, because they think that by their many words they will be heard.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 5:2-3Eccl 5:71 Kgs 18:26-29Matt 6:32Matt 26:44Dan 9:18-19Matt 26:421 Kgs 8:26-54Acts 19:34Matt 26:39

Matthew 6:88Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 6:32Luke 12:30Phil 4:6John 16:23-27Ps 38:9Ps 69:17-19

Matthew 6:99So pray this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 4:11Luke 11:1-4Rom 8:15Isa 64:8Ps 111:9Ezek 36:23Mal 1:11Isa 57:15Isa 6:3Rev 5:12

Matthew 6:1010may your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:36Matt 26:42Matt 12:50John 4:341 Thess 5:18John 6:40Rom 12:2Col 1:9Ps 40:8Eph 6:6

Matthew 6:1111Give us today our daily bread,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 30:8Luke 11:3Matt 4:4Ps 34:10John 6:31-59Job 23:12Ps 33:18-19Isa 33:161 Tim 6:8Exod 16:16-35

Matthew 6:1212and forgive us our debts, as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 4:32Mark 11:25Eph 1:7Matt 18:21-35Col 3:131 John 1:7-9Luke 11:4Luke 6:37Exod 34:7Luke 17:3-5

Matthew 6:1313And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:13John 17:15Matt 26:41Rev 7:14-172 Thess 3:3Matt 6:10Rev 19:1Jer 15:212 Pet 2:91 John 5:18-19

Matthew 6:1414“For if you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 4:32Mark 11:25Col 3:13Matt 7:2Jas 2:13Matt 18:21-35Matt 6:12Prov 21:131 John 3:10

Matthew 6:1515But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 18:35

Matthew 6:1616“When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 58:3-5Matt 9:14-15Neh 1:4Dan 9:3Luke 18:12Ps 69:10Acts 14:23Esth 4:16Mark 2:18Ps 35:13

Matthew 6:1717When you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ruth 3:3Eccl 9:82 Sam 12:20Dan 10:2-32 Sam 14:2

Matthew 6:1818so that it will not be obvious to others when you are fasting, but only to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 6:4Matt 6:62 Cor 10:182 Cor 5:91 Pet 2:13Col 3:22-241 Pet 1:7Rom 2:6

Matthew 6:1919“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and devouring insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 13:51 John 2:15-16Luke 12:21Prov 23:4-5Jas 5:1-3Prov 11:4Prov 16:161 Tim 6:171 Tim 6:8-10Luke 18:22

Matthew 6:2020But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and devouring insect do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 12:33Matt 19:21Jas 2:51 Tim 6:19Luke 18:22Heb 11:261 Tim 6:17Rev 2:91 Pet 1:4Isa 33:6

Matthew 6:2121For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Col 3:1-3Luke 12:342 Cor 4:18Prov 4:23Isa 33:6Heb 3:12Jer 4:14Matt 12:34Acts 8:21Rom 7:5-7

Matthew 6:2222“The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 11:34-362 Cor 11:3Col 3:22

Matthew 6:2323But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:11Matt 6:22Isa 5:20-21Jer 4:22Prov 26:121 Cor 3:18-191 Cor 1:18-20Isa 44:18-20Rom 2:17-231 Cor 2:14

Matthew 6:2424“No one can serve two masters, for 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 God and money.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 2:15-16Luke 16:13Jas 4:41 Tim 6:9-10Josh 24:15Gal 1:10Matt 4:10Rom 6:16-22Luke 16:111 Kgs 18:21

Matthew 6:2525“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Phil 4:61 Pet 5:7Rom 8:32Ps 55:22Luke 12:22-31Matt 6:31Matt 6:27-28Mark 4:19Matt 6:34Heb 13:5-6

Matthew 6:2626Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 10:29-31Ps 147:9Job 38:41Luke 12:24-32Ps 145:15-16Ps 104:27-28Luke 12:6-7Matt 6:32Gen 1:29-31Job 35:11

Matthew 6:2727And which of you by worrying can add even one hour to his life?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 12:25-26Eccl 3:14Ps 39:5-6Matt 5:361 Cor 12:18

Matthew 6:2828Why do you worry about clothing? Think about how the flowers of the field grow; they do not work or spin.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 6:25Phil 4:6Luke 12:27Luke 22:35-36Matt 6:31Luke 3:11Matt 10:10

Matthew 6:2929Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 9:20-222 Chr 9:4-61 Kgs 10:4-71 Pet 3:2-51 Tim 2:9-10

Matthew 6:3030And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won’t he clothe you even more, you people of little faith?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 12:28Matt 14:311 Pet 1:24Matt 16:8Matt 8:26Jas 1:10-11John 20:27Mark 4:40Heb 3:12Isa 40:6-8

Matthew 6:3131So then, don’t worry saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 5:7Luke 12:29Matt 4:4Ps 55:22Matt 15:33Ps 37:32 Chr 25:9Ps 78:18-31Lev 25:20-22

Matthew 6:3232For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 6:8Luke 12:30Eph 4:17Luke 11:11-13Ps 17:14Matt 20:25-261 Thess 4:5Ps 103:13

Matthew 6:3333But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 12:31Matt 5:6John 6:27Ps 34:9-10Ps 84:11-12Mark 10:29-30Rom 14:17Prov 3:9-10Prov 2:1-9Ps 37:25

Matthew 6:3434So then, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 6:25John 14:27Heb 13:5-6John 16:33Luke 11:3Lam 3:231 Kgs 17:14-16Matt 6:111 Kgs 17:4-61 Thess 3:3-4

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