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Ye have heard that it has been said, Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.

But *I* say unto you, Love your enemies, [bless those who curse you,] do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who [insult you and] persecute you,

that ye may be [the] sons of your Father who is in [the] heavens; for he makes his sun rise on evil and good, and sends rain on just and unjust.

For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets so that they should appear to men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as those who are of the nations: for they think they shall be heard through their much speaking.

Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg [anything] of him.

For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father also will forgive you [yours],

And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, downcast in countenance; for they disfigure their faces, so that they may appear fasting to men: verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust spoils, and where thieves do not dig through nor steal;

for where thy treasure is, there will be also thy heart.

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

For this cause I say unto you, Do not be careful about your life, what ye should eat and what ye should drink; nor for your body what ye should put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?

for all these things the nations seek after; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.

Be not careful therefore for the morrow, for the morrow shall be careful about itself. Sufficient to the day [is] its own evil.

for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you.

For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened.

Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do *ye* also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter in through it.