The King James Version Bible

Matthew 6:17-28

  1. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

  2. 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.

  3. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

  4. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

  5. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

  6. The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

  7. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

  8. No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

  9. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

  10. Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

  11. Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

  12. And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: