Matthew 6:1

“Take care not to perform your religious duties in public in order to be seen by others; if you do, your Father who is in heaven has no reward for you.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Therefore, when you do acts of charity, do not have a trumpet blown in front of you, as hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that people will praise them. There, I tell you, is their reward!

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Cross References

Zechariah 7:5Tell all the people of the land and the priests, “When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

Matthew 5:16Let your light so shine before the eyes of others so that, seeing your good actions, they will praise your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:48You, then, must become perfect – as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 6:1

Christ having, in the former chapter, armed his disciples against the corrupt doctrines and opinions of the scribes and Pharisees, especially in their expositions of the law (that was called their leaven, ch. xvi. 12 ), comes in this chapter to warn them against their corrupt practices, against the two sins which, though in their doctrine they did not justify, yet in their conversation they were notoriously guilty of, and so as even to recommend them to their admirers: these were hypocrisy and worldly-mindedness,… Read the whole commentary →

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