Of prayer.

9 After this manner, therefore pray ye; Our Father which art in heaven; Hallowed be thy name.d

10 Thy kingdom come. e Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread,

12 And forgive us our debts,f as we forgive our debtors.

13 And lead us not into temptation;g but deliver us from evil; For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. 14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. 16 Moreover, when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Avoid worldly care.

18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

19¶ Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal :

20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.

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

22 The light of the body is the eye; if, therefore thine eye be single,i thy whole body shall be full of light.

23 But if thine eye be evil,j thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

b Anoint thine bead, &c. Appear in thy ordinary dress, and with a cheerful countenance..

24 ¶ No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.k

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment ?

i If thine eye be sound or clear. j If thine eye be disordered or dim. k Mammon, earthly treasures.

Of worldly care.

26 Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Judge not rashly.

the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.o

34 Take, therefore, no thought n for the morrow; for 1 By taking thought, who by anxious thought, can prolong his life an hour? m Gentiles. All nations except the Jews.

n Take no thought, be not anxious.

CHAP. VII.

1 Christ, ending his sermon on the mount, reproveth rash judgment, 6, forbiddeth to cast holy things to dogs, 7 exhorteth to prayer, 13 to enter in at the strait gate, 15 to beware of false prophets, 21 and not to be hearers only, but doers of the word.

JUDGE not, that ye be not judged.

2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, a it shall be measured to you again.

3 And why beholdest thou the moteb that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beame that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

Ask and receive.

5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs,d neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. 7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

8 For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seek eth, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

9 Or what man is there of you, whom, if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

11 If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

13. Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,

d Give not, &c. Perform not your pious and religious duties before profane persons, lest they deride you, and make sport of religion to its injury.

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14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

15 ¶ Beware of false prophets, e which come to you in sheep's clothing, ƒ but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather

of thorns, or figs of

grapes thistles ?

17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit; neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

20 Wherefore by their fruits

ye shall know them.

21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord,g Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven;h but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

22 Many will say to me in e False prophets, false teachers; pretenders to divine commission.

f Sheep's clothing, a hypocritical appearance of humility,

8 Not every one, &c. that calls himself a Christian shall be admitted to the joys of heaven; but he only, who yields a sincere and cheerful obedience to the will of God.

b Here kingdom of heaven signifies the enjoyment of God in another life.