Matthew 6:18
that you may not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
17But do you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face;
Cross References
Matthew 6:6But do you, when you pray, go into your closet, and when you have closed the door, pray to your Father who is in secret: and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
2 Corinthians 5:9For this reason we also endeavor, whether we remain in the body or depart from it, to be acceptable to him.
Colossians 3:22Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as pleasing men, but with simplicity of heart, fearing God.
1 Peter 2:13Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man, for the Lord’s sake; whether it be to the king, as supreme ruler,
Matthew Henry on Matthew 6:17-19
The Sermon on the Mount. 16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; 18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. We are here cautioned against hypocrisy in fasting, as before in almsgiving, and in… Read the whole commentary →