Matthew 6:4
so that thy charity may be in secret. And thy Father who sees in secret will himself reward thee in the open.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3But when thou do charity, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does,
Cross References
Psalms 17:3Thou have proved my heart. Thou have visited me in the night. Thou have tried me, and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
Psalms 139:1O LORD, thou have searched me, and known.
Jeremiah 17:10I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Matthew 6:6But thou, when thou pray, enter into thy private room, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee in the open.
Matthew 10:42And whoever may give to drink one of these little ones merely a cold cup in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you he will, no, not lose his reward.
Luke 8:17For there is no secret that will not become visible, nor hid, that will not be known and come to be visible.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 6:2-5
The Sermon on the Mount. 1 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. 2 Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 3 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: 4 That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in… Read the whole commentary →