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Geneva Bible New Testament,
The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ,
According To Matthew Chapter 6 ;
1 Alms.
5 Prayer.
14 Forgiving our brother.
16 Fasting.
19 Our treasure.
20 We must succor the poor.
24 God and riches.
25 Careful seeking for meat and drink, and apparel,
forbidden.
33 The kingdom of God and his righteousness.
1 Take heed that ye give not your (1) alms before
men to be seen of them, or else ye shall have no
(a) reward of your Father which is in heaven.
(1) Ambition maketh alms vain.
(a) This word, Reward, is always taken in the
Scriptures for a free recompense, and therefore the
schoolmen do fondly set it to be answerable to a
deserving, which they call merit.
2 (*) Therefore when thou givest thine alms, thou
shalt not make a trumpet to be blown before thee,
as the (b) () hypocrites do in the Synagogues and
in the streets, to be praised of men. Verily I say
unto you, they have their (()) reward.
(*) Romans 2:8 .
(b) Counterfeits, for Hypocrites were players that
played a part in a play.
() Whose works proceed not of a right faith, but
are done for vain glory.
(()) In that they are praised and commended of men.
3 But when thou doest thine alms, let not thy
(*) left hand know what thy right hand doeth,
(*) It is sufficient that God approve our works.
4 That thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father
that seeth in secret, he will reward thee (*) openly.
(*) In that day when all things shall be revealed.
5 (2) And when thou prayest, be not as the
hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the
Synagogues, and in the corners of the streets,
because they would be seen of men. Verily I say
unto you, they have their reward.
(2) He reprehendeth two foul faults in prayer,
ambition, and vain babbling.
6 But when thou prayest, (*) enter into thy chamber,
and when thou hast shut thy door, pray unto thy
Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth
in secret, shall reward thee openly.
(*) Withdraw thyself rather apart.
7 Also when ye pray, (*) () use no (c) vain repetitions
as the Heathen, for they think to be heard for their
much babbling.
(*) Or, babble not much.
() He commandeth us to beware of much babbling
and superfluous repeats.
(c) Long prayers are not condemned, but vain, needless,
and superstitious.
8 Be ye not like them therefore; for your (*) Father
knoweth whereof ye have need, before ye ask of him.
(*) Who is not persuaded by eloquent speech, and
long talk, as men are.
9 (3) After this () manner therefore pray ye,
(*) Our father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy
(()) Name.
(3) A true sum and form of all Christian prayers.
() Christ bindeth them not to the words, but to the
sense and form of prayer.
(*) Luke 11:2 .
(()) We must seek God's glory first, and above all
things.
10 Thy (*) Kingdom come. Thy will be done even
in earth, as it is in heaven.
(*) Reign thou over all, and let us render unto thee
perfect obedience, as thine Angels do.
11 Give us this day our (d) daily bread.
(d) That is meat for our nature for our daily food,
or such, as may suffice our nature and complexion.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our
debtors.
13 And lead us not into () temptation, but deliver
us (*) from (e) evil. For (()) thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
() To be overcome thereby.
(*) Matthew 13:19 .
(e) From the Devil, or from all adversity.
(()) This conclusion excludeth man's merits,
and teacheth us to ground our prayers only on God.
14 (*) (4) For if ye do forgive men their trespasses,
your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
(*) Mark 11:25 .
(4) They that forgive wrongs, to them sins are
forgiven, but revenge is prepared for them that
revenge.
15 But if ye do not forgive men their trespasses,
no more will your Father forgive you your trespasses.
16 (5) Moreover, when ye fast, look not sour as the
hypocrites, for they (f) (*) disfigure their faces, that
they might seem unto men to fast. Verily I say unto
you, that they have their reward.
(5) Against such as hunt after a name of holiness,
by fasting.
(f) They suffer not their first hue to be seen, that
is to say, they mar the natural color of their faces,
that they may seem lean and pale faced.
(*) Make their faces to seem of another sort than
they were wont to do.
17 But when thou fastest, (*) anoint thy head,
and wash thy face,
(*) Whereby is commanded to avoid all vain
ostentation.
18 That thou seem not unto men to fast, but unto
thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which
seeth in secret, will reward thee openly.
19 ¶ (6) Lay not up treasures for yourselves upon
the earth, where the moth and canker corrupt,
and where thieves dig through and steal.
(6) Those men's labors are shewed to be vain
which pass not for the assured treasure of
everlasting life, but spend their lives in scraping
together frail and vain riches.
20 (*) But lay up treasures for yourselves in
heaven, where neither the moth nor canker
corrupteth, and where thieves neither dig through
nor steal.
(*) Luke 12:33; 1 Timothy 6:19 .
21 For where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also.
22 ¶ (*) (7) The light of the body is the eye; if
then thine (g) eye be () single, thy whole body
shall be light.
(*) Luke 11:34 .
(7) Men do maliciously and wickedly put out even
the little light of nature that is in them.
(g) The judgment of the mind; that as the body is
with the eyes, so our whole life may be ruled with
right reason, that is to say, with the Spirit of God
wherewith we are lightened.
() If thine eye be disposed to liberality,
Proverbs 21:9 .
23 But if thine eye be (*) wicked, then all thy body
shall be dark. Wherefore if the () light that is in thee,
be darkness, how great is that darkness?
(*) If thine affection be corrupt and given to
covetousness,
Deuteronomy 15:9 .
() If the concupiscence, and wicked affections
overcome reason, we must not marvel though
men be blinded, and be like unto beasts.
24 (*) (8) No man can serve (h) two masters; for
either he shall hate the one, and love the other, or
else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and (i) riches.
(*) Luke 16:13 .
(8) God will be worshipped of the whole man.
(h) Which be at war together, for if two agree, they
are as one.
(i) This word is a Syrian word, and signifieth all
things that belong to money.
25 (*) (9) Therefore I say unto you, be not
() careful 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 worth than meat? And
the body than raiment?
(*) Luke 12:22; Philippians 4:6; 1 Timothy 6:8;
1 Peter 5:7; Psalm 55:23 .
(9) The froward carking carefulness for things of
this Life is corrected in the children of God by an
earnest thinking upon the providence of God.
() Man's travel nothing availeth where God giveth
not increase.
26 Behold the fowls of the (k) heaven, for they
sow not, neither reap, nor carry into the barns, yet
your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not
much better than they?
(k) Of the air, or that live in the air; for in all tongues
almost this word Heaven is taken for the air.
27 Which of you by (l) taking care is able to add
one cubit unto his stature?
(l) He speaketh of care which is joined with
thought of mind, and hath for the most part
distrust yoke with it.
28 And why care ye for raiment? Learn how the
Lilies of (*) the field do grow; they (m) () are
not wearied, neither spin;
(*) The goodness of God even towards the herbs
of the field, far passeth all things that man can
compass by his power and labor.
(m) By labor.
() The word signifieth, they weary not themselves.
29 Yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the
field which is today, and tomorrow is cast into the
oven, shall he not do much more unto you,
O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall
we eat? Or what shall we drink? Or wherewith
shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things (*) seek the Gentiles)
for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need
of all these things.
(*) With care and distrust.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
(*) righteousness, and all these things shall be
ministered unto you.
(*) That is, to be regenerated, and amend your lives.
34 Care not then for the morrow, for the morrow
shall care for (*) () itself. The day hath enough
with his own grief.
(*) Or, his own things.
() God will provide for every day that which
shall be necessary, though we do not increase the
present grief by the carefulness how to live in time
to come.
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