PriestUndivided devotion

Matthew 6 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: Matthew 1–28 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Chapter 6

Righteousness in secret

Verse 6:1

Greek–English Saints Priority

Take care not to practice your righteousness before people in order to be seen by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father in the heavens.

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Verse 6:2

Greek–English Saints Priority

So when you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and streets, so that people may glorify them. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

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Verse 6:3

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But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

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Verse 6:4

Greek–English Saints Priority

so that your almsgiving may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

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Prayer

Verse 6:5

Greek–English Saints Priority

And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray standing in synagogues and at street corners, so that people may see them. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

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Verse 6:6

Greek–English Saints Priority

But you, when you pray, enter your inner room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

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Verse 6:7

Greek–English Saints Priority

When praying, do not babble like the Gentiles, for they think they will be heard through their many words.

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Verse 6:8

Greek–English Saints Priority

So do not become like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

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Verse 6:9

Greek–English Saints Priority

You, then, pray like this: ‘Our Father in the heavens, let Your name be hallowed.

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Verse 6:10

Greek–English Saints Priority

Let Your kingdom come. Let Your will be done, as in heaven, also upon earth.

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Verse 6:11

Greek–English Saints Priority

Give us today our daily bread.

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Text: ἐπιούσιος is rare and its exact sense disputed; “daily” is retained provisionally. “For the coming day” and “necessary for subsistence” are possible interpretive alternatives.

Verse 6:12

Greek–English Saints Priority

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

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Verse 6:13

Greek–English Saints Priority

And do not bring us into temptation, but rescue us from evil.’

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Text: πειρασμός may mean temptation or testing; τοῦ πονηροῦ permits “evil” or “the evil one.” The main text ends here without a doxology; no alternate edition is inserted.

Verse 6:14

Greek–English Saints Priority

For if you forgive people their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

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Verse 6:15

Greek–English Saints Priority

But if you do not forgive people, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

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Fasting

Verse 6:16

Greek–English Saints Priority

And when you fast, do not become gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so that people may see they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

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Verse 6:17

Greek–English Saints Priority

But you, when fasting, anoint your head and wash your face,

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Verse 6:18

Greek–English Saints Priority

so that your fasting may be seen by your Father who is in secret, rather than by people; and your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

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Treasure and trust

Verse 6:19

Greek–English Saints Priority

Do not store up treasures for yourselves upon earth, where moth and consumption destroy and where thieves break through and steal.

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Verse 6:20

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But store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor consumption destroys and where thieves neither break through nor steal.

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Verse 6:21

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

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Verse 6:22

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The lamp of the body is the eye. So if your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

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Verse 6:23

Greek–English Saints Priority

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. So if the light within you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

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Text: The contrast is ἁπλοῦς (“single,” “undivided,” hence sound) and πονηρός (“evil”). The eye image is retained; generosity and envy are possible contextual implications, not inserted wording.

Verse 6:24

Greek–English Saints Priority

No one can serve as a slave to two masters: for he will either hate the one and love the other, or hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve as a slave to God and mammon.

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Text: δουλεύειν retains slavery language; μαμωνᾷ is retained as “mammon,” wealth personified as a competing master.

Verse 6:25

Greek–English Saints Priority

Therefore I tell you: do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. Is life not more than food, and the body more than clothing?

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Text: NA28 reads τί φάγητε [ἢ τί πίητε], μηδὲ (SBLGNT τί φάγητε, μηδὲ); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 6:26

Greek–English Saints Priority

Look at the birds of the sky: they do not sow or reap or gather into storehouses, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they?

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Verse 6:27

Greek–English Saints Priority

Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his lifespan?

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Text: The source’s cubit is retained as a metaphorical measure. ἡλικία can mean lifespan or stature; “lifespan” is provisional here.

Verse 6:28

Greek–English Saints Priority

And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin.

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Verse 6:29

Greek–English Saints Priority

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.

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Verse 6:30

Greek–English Saints Priority

If God so clothes the grass of the field, which exists today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, people of little faith?

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Verse 6:31

Greek–English Saints Priority

So do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

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Verse 6:32

Greek–English Saints Priority

For the nations seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

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Verse 6:33

Greek–English Saints Priority

But seek first the kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

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Text: The main text reads “the kingdom,” without an added “of God”; His refers back to the heavenly Father in verse 32.

Text: NA28 reads τὴν βασιλείαν [τοῦ θεοῦ] καὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην αὐτοῦ (SBLGNT τὴν βασιλείαν καὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην αὐτοῦ); the rendering above follows SBLGNT and would read “the kingdom of God and His righteousness” under NA28 (collated against TAGNT edition marks, not a printed NA28 apparatus).

Verse 6:34

Greek–English Saints Priority

So do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious about itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

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