Dual Panel1"BEWARE of doing your good deeds conspicuously to catch men's eyes or you will miss the reward of your Heavenly Father.
2"So, when you do good to other people, don't hire a trumpeter to go in front of youlike those playactors in the synagogues and streets who make sure that man admire them. Believe me, they have had all the reward they are going to get!
3No, when you give to charity, don't even let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
4so that your giving may be secret. Your Father who knows all secrets will reward you.
5"And then, when you pray, don't be like the playactors. They love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at streetcomers so that people may see them at it. Believe me, they have had all the reward they are going to get.
6But when you pray, go into your own room, shut your door and pray to your Father privately. Your Father who sees all private things will reward you.
7And when you pray don't rattle off long prayers like the pagans who think they will be heard because they use so many words.
8Don't be like them. For your Father knows your needs before you ask him.
9Pray then like thisOur Heavenly Father, may your name be honoured;
10May your kingdom come, and your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
11Give us each day the bread we need for the day,
12Forgive us what we owe to you, as we have also forgiven those who owe anything to us.
13Keep us clear of temptation, and save us from evil.
14"For if you forgive other people their failures, your Heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15But if you will not forgive other people, neither will your Father forgive you your failures.
16"Then, when you fast, don't look like those miserable playactors! For they deliberately disfigure their faces so that people may see that they are fasting. Believe me, they have had all their reward.
17No, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face
18so that nobody knows that you are fastinglet it be a secret between you and your Father. And your Father who knows all secrets will reward you.
19"Don't pile up treasures on earth, where moth and rust can spoil them and thieves can break in and steal.
20But keep your treasure in Heaven where there is neither moth nor rust to spoil it and nobody can break in and steal.
21For wherever your treasure is, your heart will be there too!
22"The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be hill of light.
23But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If all the light you have is darkness, it is dark indeed!
24"No one can fully serve two masters. He is bound to hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and the power of money.
25That is why I say to you, don't worry about livingwondering what you are going to eat or drink, or what you are going to wear. Surely life is more important than food, and the body more important than the clothes you wear.
26Look at the birds in the sky. They never sow nor reap nor store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you much more valuable to him than they are?
27Can any of you, however much he worries, make himself even a few inches taller?
28And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the wild flowers grow. They neither work nor weave,
29but I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these!
30Now if God so clothes the flowers of the field, which are alive today and burnt in the stove tomorrow, is he not much more likely to clothe you, you 'little faiths'?
31"So don't worry and don't keep saying, 'What shall we eat, what shall we drink or what shall we wear?'
32That is what pagans are always looking for; your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
33Set your heart first on his kingdom and his goodness, and all these things will come to you as a matter of course.
34"Don't worry at all then about tomorrow. Tomorrow can worry about itself! One day's trouble is enough for one day.