that it may be evident to men that they are fasting.
I solemnly tell you that they already have their reward.
006:017 But, whenever you fast, pour perfume on your hair and
wash your face,
006:018 that it may not be apparent to men that you are fasting,
but to your Father who is in secret; and your Father--He who
sees in secret--will recompense you.
006:019 "Do not lay up stores of wealth for yourselves on earth,
where the moth and wear-and-tear destroy, and where thieves
break in and steal.
006:020 But amass wealth for yourselves in Heaven, where neither the moth
nor wear-and-tear destroys, and where thieves do not break
in and steal.
006:021 For where your wealth is, there also will your heart be.
006:022 "The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eyesight is good,
your whole body will be well lighted;
006:023 but if your eyesight is bad, your whole body will be dark.
If however the very light within you is darkness, how dense
must the darkness be!
006:024 "No man can be the bondservant of two masters; for either
he will dislike one and like the other, or he will attach
himself to one and think slightingly of the other.
You cannot be the bondservants both of God and of gold.
006:025 For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your lives,
inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet
about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on.
Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body
than its clothing?
006:026 Look at the birds which fly in the air: they do not sow or reap
or store up in barns, but your Heavenly Father feeds them: