19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where the rust and canker spoil, and where thieves dig through and steal: 20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither rust nor canker spoil, and where thieves do not dig through and steal; 21for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be transparent, thy whole body shall be enlightened. 23But if thine eye be vitiated, thy whole body will be darkened. If therefore the light which is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. 25For this cause I tell you, Be not anxious about your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life of more value than meat, and the body than raiment? 26Look on the birds of the air: for they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not of more value than they? 27But which of you, by his cares, can add one cubit to his stature? 28And why are ye anxious about clothing? Contemplate the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, nor spin: 29yet I tell you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. 30If God then so clothe a vegetable of the field, which to-day is, in beauty, and tomorrow is cast into the furnace, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31Wherefore be under no anxiety, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be clothed? 32(for after all these things the heathen seek:) and your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of them all. 33But seek ye, in the first place, the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be given you over. 34Be not therefore anxious about to-morrow: for tomorrow will provide for its own wants. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.
[CHAP. VII.]
JUDGE not, that ye be not judged. 2For with the same judgment ye judge others, shall ye be judged: and with the measure ye mete, shall it be measured to you again. 3And why spiest thou out the mote which is in thy brother’s eye, yet payest no attention to the beam which is in thine own eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer me to take the mote off from thine eye: and behold there is a beam in thine own eye? 5Thou hypocrite, take first the beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to take off the mote from thy brother’s eye.
6Give not that which is holy to dogs, nor cast pearls before swine; lest they tread them under foot, and turning round tear you.
7Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 9What man is there of you, of whom if his son ask a loaf, will he give him a stone? 10or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11If ye then, evil as ye are, know how to bestow good gifts on your children; how much more will your Father who is in heaven, bestow good things on those who ask him? 12All things therefore whatsoever ye would be willing that men should do to you, just so do ye to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
13Enter in through the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and spacious the road, which leadeth to perdition, and they are many who enter that way: 14because strait is the gate, and narrow the road, which leadeth to life, and they are but a few who find it.
15Take heed then of false prophets, who come to you in the garb of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles? 17So every good tree beareth good fruits; but every bad tree in kind, produceth bad fruits. 18A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, neither can a tree bad in kind produce good fruits. 19Every tree that beareth not good fruit, is cut down, and cast into the fire. 20Well then! by their fruits ye shall know them. 21Not every one who saith to me, Lord, Lord! shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have we not cast out devils? and in thy name done many miracles? 23And then will I profess unto them, that I never knew you: depart from me, ye workers of iniquity.
24Every man therefore who is hearing from me these words, and puts them in practice, I will compare him to the intelligent man, who erected his house upon a rock: 25and the rain descended, and the rivers rushed, and the winds blew, and they beat against that house, and it fell not; for it was founded on a rock. 26And every man who is hearing these sayings of mine, and doth not practise them, he will resemble the foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: 27and the rain descended, and the rivers rushed, and the winds blew, and set against that house, and it fell; and the fall of it was great.