ight that is in thee is darkness,
how great the darkness! (24)No man can serve two masters; for either
he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will hold to one and
despise the other. Ye can not serve God and Mammon.
(25)For this cause I say to you, take not thought for your life, what
ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall
put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?
(26)Behold the birds of the air, that they sow not, nor reap, nor
gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not
much better than they? (27)And which of you by taking thought can add
one cubit to his stature[6:27]? (28)And why take ye thought for
raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They toil
not, nor spin; (29)and I say to you, that even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these. (30)And if God so clothes the
grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the
oven, will he not much more you, ye of little faith? (31)Take not
thought therefore, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?
or, Wherewith shall we be clothed? (32)For after all these do the
Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all
these. (33)But seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these shall be added to you. (34)Take not thought, therefore,
for the morrow; for the morrow will take thought for itself.
Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.
VII.
JUDGE not, that ye be not judged. (2)For with what judgment ye judge,
ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be
measured to you. (3)And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy
brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
(4)Or how wilt thou say to thy brother: Let me cast out the mote from
thine eye; and behold, the beam is in thine own eye? (5)Hypocrite!
first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then thou wilt see
clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
(6)Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls
before the swine; lest they trample them with their feet, and turn and
rend you.
(7)Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and
it shall be opened to you. (8)For every one that asks receives; and he
that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened. (9)Or
what man is there of you, of whom if his son ask bread, will he give
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