Giving to the Needy
(Deuteronomy 15:7–11)
“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts 1before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. Mat 23:5Jhn 12:43Heb 6:10Mat 23:28-30Luk 16:15Gal 6:12Mat 6:4-6Ezk 33:31
So 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. Mat 6:52Co 9:6-15Mat 6:16Jhn 5:41Jas 2:15-161Jn 3:17-19Luk 20:461Pe 4:11 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, Jhn 7:4Mat 9:30Mrk 1:44Mat 12:19Mat 8:4 so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Mat 6:18Mat 6:6Jer 17:10Luk 14:14Psa 44:21Mat 25:34-40Jer 23:24Luk 8:17
The Lord’s Prayer
(Luke 11:1–4)
And 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. Mat 6:2Luk 18:10-11Luk 18:13Mrk 11:25Isa 55:6-7Jer 29:12Isa 1:15Jas 4:6 But 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. 2Ki 4:33Mat 14:23Isa 65:24Act 9:40Psa 34:15Isa 26:20Mat 6:18Mat 26:36-39
And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard. Ecc 5:2-3Ecc 5:71Ki 18:26-29Mat 6:32Mat 26:44Dan 9:18-19Mat 26:42Act 19:34 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Mat 6:32Luk 12:30Php 4:6Jhn 16:23-27Psa 38:9Psa 69:17-19
So then, this is how you should pray: Rev 4:11Luk 11:1-4Rom 8:15Isa 64:8Psa 111:9Ezk 36:23Mal 1:11Isa 57:15
‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come, Heb 10:36Mat 26:42Mat 12:50Jhn 4:341Th 5:18Jhn 6:40Rom 12:2Col 1:9
Your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread. Pro 30:8Luk 11:3Mat 4:4Psa 34:10Jhn 6:31-59Psa 33:18-19Job 23:12Isa 33:16
And forgive us our debts, Eph 4:32Mrk 11:25Eph 1:7Mat 18:21-35Col 3:131Jn 1:7-9Luk 11:4Luk 6:37
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, 1Co 10:13Jhn 17:15Mat 26:41Rev 7:14-172Th 3:3Mat 6:10Rev 19:1Jer 15:21
but deliver us from the evil one. 2’
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Eph 4:32Mrk 11:25Col 3:13Mat 7:2Jas 2:13Mat 18:21-35Mat 6:12Pro 21:13 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours. Mat 18:35
Proper Fasting
When 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. Isa 58:3-5Mat 9:14-15Neh 1:4Dan 9:3Luk 18:12Psa 69:10Act 14:23Est 4:16 But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, Rut 3:3Ecc 9:82Sa 12:20Dan 10:2-32Sa 14:2 so 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. Mat 6:4Mat 6:62Co 10:182Co 5:91Pe 2:13Col 3:22-241Pe 1:7Rom 2:6
Treasures in Heaven
(Luke 12:32–34)
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust 3destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. Heb 13:51Jn 2:15-16Luk 12:21Pro 23:4-5Pro 11:4Jas 5:1-3Pro 16:161Ti 6:17 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. Luk 12:33Mat 19:211Ti 6:19Jas 2:5Luk 18:22Heb 11:261Ti 6:17Rev 2:9 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Col 3:1-3Luk 12:342Co 4:18Pro 4:23Isa 33:6Heb 3:12Jer 4:14Mat 12:34
The Lamp of the Body
(Luke 11:33–36)
The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, 4 your whole body will be full of light. Luk 11:34-362Co 11:3Col 3:22Eph 6:5Act 2:46 But if your eyes are bad, 5 your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 1Jn 2:11Mat 6:22Isa 5:20-21Jer 4:22Pro 26:121Co 3:18-191Co 1:18-20Isa 44:18-20
No 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. 1Jn 2:15-16Luk 16:13Jas 4:41Ti 6:9-10Jos 24:15Gal 1:10Mat 4:10Rom 6:16-22
Do Not Worry
(Luke 12:22–31)
Therefore 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? Php 4:6Rom 8:321Pe 5:7Psa 55:22Luk 12:22-31Mat 6:31Mat 6:27-28Mrk 4:19 Look 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? Mat 10:29-31Psa 147:9Job 38:41Luk 12:24-32Psa 145:15-16Psa 104:27-28Luk 12:6-7Mat 6:32 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 6 Luk 12:25-26Ecc 3:14Mat 5:36Psa 39:5-61Co 12:18
And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin. Mat 6:25Php 4:6Luk 12:27Luk 22:35-36Mat 6:31Luk 3:11Mat 10:10 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. 2Ch 9:20-222Ch 9:4-61Ki 10:4-71Pe 3:2-51Ti 2:9-10 If 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? Luk 12:28Mat 14:311Pe 1:24Mat 16:8Mat 8:26Jas 1:10-11Jhn 20:27Mrk 4:40
Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 1Pe 5:7Luk 12:29Mat 4:4Psa 55:22Mat 15:332Ch 25:9Psa 37:3Psa 78:18-31 For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. Mat 6:8Luk 12:30Eph 4:17Luk 11:11-13Psa 17:14Mat 20:25-261Th 4:5Psa 103:13 But seek first the kingdom of God 7and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. Luk 12:31Mat 5:6Jhn 6:27Psa 34:9-10Psa 84:11-12Mrk 10:29-30Rom 14:17Pro 3:9-10
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own. Mat 6:25Jhn 14:27Heb 13:5-6Jhn 16:33Luk 11:3Lam 3:23Mat 6:111Ki 17:14-16