1 But be on guard not to carry out your righteousness before people for the purpose of being observed by them; otherwise, you have no reward from your Father {Patri, True Rewarder} who is in the heavens {ouranois: exalted realm}.
2 Therefore, whenever you give alms {eleemosyne: compassionate aid}, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be glorified by people. Truly, I {Iesous, Heart-Searching Teacher} say to you, they have received their reward.
3 But when you are giving alms {eleemosyne: merciful aid}, do not let your left hand {aristera: private self} know what your right hand is doing.
4 So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father {Pater, Heavenly Rewarder}, who sees in secret, will reward you {apodosei: grant in return}.
5 And whenever you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, because they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the corners of the streets, so that they may be seen by people. Truly, I {Iesous, Righteous Instructor} say to you, they have received their reward {misthon: full payment}.
6 But you, whenever you pray, enter into your inner room {tameion: secluded chamber}, and after you have shut your door, pray to your Father {Pater, Secret Hearer} who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
7 But when you are praying, do not babble {battalogeo: use pointless repetitions} like the Gentiles do, for they imagine {dokousin: mentally assume} that they will be heard because of their many words.
8 Therefore do not become like them, for your Father {pater, Attentive Provider} knows what things you have need of before you ask {aitesai: bring request} Him.
9 Therefore, pray in this way: Our Father {Pater, Heavenly Listener}, who is in the heavens, let Your name be sanctified {hagiazo: regarded holy}.
10 Let Your {Pater, Sovereign Father} kingdom come; let Your will {thelema: purposeful desire} be done, as in heaven, so also on earth.
11 Give us today our daily {epiousion: needed for the day} bread {artos: staple food}.
12 And forgive {aphes: grant release} us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors {opheiletais: people owing us}.
13 And do not lead us into temptation {peirasmos: trial or test}, but deliver us from the evil one {ponerou: Malevolent Opposer}.
14 For if you forgive {aphete: send away, release} other people their trespasses, Your heavenly Father {Pater humon ho ouranios, Gracious Forgiver} will also forgive you.
15 But if you do not forgive people, neither will Your Father {Pater, Merciful Judge} forgive your trespasses {paraptomata: moral violations}.
16 Whenever you fast, do not become like the hypocrites, gloomy, for they disfigure their faces {prosopa: visible countenance} so that they might appear to people as fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward {misthos: full compensation}.
17 But you, when you are fasting, anoint your head {kephale: outward bearing} and wash your face {prosopon: outer appearance}.
18 So that you may not appear to people as fasting, but to Your Father {Pater, Secret Witness} who is in secret; and Your Father who sees in secret will reward {apodosei: repay with care} you.
19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth {ses: fabric-eating insect} and rust {brosis: consuming corrosion} destroy, and where thieves break through and steal.
20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven {ouranos: divine realm}, where neither moth {ses: consuming insect} nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in nor steal.
21 For where your treasure {thesauros: stored valuables} is, there your heart {kardia: inner self} will be also.
22 The eye is the body’s lamp. Therefore, if your eye is single {haplous: undivided focus}, your whole body will be luminous {photeinon: light-filled}.
23 But if your eye is evil {poneros: morally wrong}, your whole body will be dark. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness {skotos: absence of spiritual illumination}!
24 No one is able to serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold fast to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God {Theos, Exclusive Master} and mammon {mamona: rival wealth}.
25 Because of this I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life {psychē: whole-life concern}, what you might eat or drink, nor about your body, what you might put on. Is not life greater than food {trophēs: basic nourishment}, and the body greater than clothing?
26 Look at the birds {peteina: flying creatures} of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor do they reap, nor do they gather into barns, and yet your Father {Pater, Faithful Provider}, the heavenly One, feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27 But who among you, by worrying {merimnon: anxious concern}, is able to add one cubit {pechyn: forearm length} to his stature?
28 And concerning clothing {endymatos: ordinary garments}, why are you anxious? Observe the lilies {krina: delicate lilies} of the field, how they grow; they do not toil, nor do they spin.
29 But I {Iesous, Trustworthy Teacher} say to you that not even Solomon, in all his glory, was clothed like one of these {touton: simple wildflowers}.
30 But if God {Theos, Faith Nurturer} so clothes the grass {chorton: common vegetation} of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
31 Therefore do not be anxious {merimnao: mentally divided}, saying, “What might we eat, or what might we drink, or what might we be clothed {periballo: put around oneself}?”
32 For all these things the nations {ethne: non-Jewish peoples} seek after, for your heavenly Father {Pater ouranios, Faithful Provider} knows that you need all these things.
33 But make His {Theos, Covenant King} kingdom your first pursuit, and His righteousness {dikaiosyne: covenant justice}, and all these things will be granted to you.
34 Therefore, do not be anxious {merimnesete: inwardly unsettled} about tomorrow; for tomorrow will handle its own matters. The day itself has enough hardship {kakia: present trouble}.