Matthew 6:4
that your charitable deeds may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, himself will reward you openly.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
3But when you do a charitable deed, let not your left hand know what your right hand does;
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.
Matthew 10:42And whoever will give one of these little ones only a cup of cold water to drink, because he is a disciple, verily I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.
Luke 8:17For there is nothing concealed, that shall not be made manifest, nor hid, that shall not be known and brought into view.
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 →