Study Desk

When you fast, do not look sad like the hypocrites; for they disfigure their faces, so that they may appear to men that they are fasting. Truly I say to you, that they have already received their reward.

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures buried in the ground, a place where rust and moth destroy, and where thieves break through and steal.

But lay up for yourselves a treasure in heaven, where neither rust nor moth destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal.

For where your treasure is, there also is your heart.

No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and like the other; or he will honor one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (wealth).

For this reason, I say to you, Do not worry for your life, what you will eat, and what you will drink, nor for your body, what you will wear. Behold, is not life much more important than food, and the body than clothing?

Watch the birds of the sky, for they do not sow, neither do they harvest, nor gather into barns, and yet your Father in heaven feeds them. Are you not much more important than they?

For worldly people seek after all these things. Your Father in heaven knows that all of these things are also necessary for you.

Therefore do not worry for tomorrow; for tomorrow will look after its own. Sufficient for each day, is its own trouble.

For with the same judgment that you judge, you will be judged, and with the same measure with which you measure, it will be measured to you.

Do not give holy things to the dogs; and do not throw your pearls before the swine, for they might tread them with their feet, and then turn and rend you.

For whoever asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, the door is opened.

Or who is the man among you, who when his son asks him for bread, why, will he hand him a stone?

Or if he should ask him for fish, why, will he hand him a snake?

Whatever you wish men to do for you, do likewise also for them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Enter in through the narrow door, for wide is the door, and broad is the road which carries to destruction, and many are those who travel on it.

For he taught them as one who had the power, and not like their own scribes and Pharisees.

Jesus then said to him, Look here, why are you telling it to men? go first and show yourself to the priests, and offer an offering as Moses has commanded, for a testimonial to them.

For I am also a man in government service, and there are soldiers under my command; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to the other, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.

For which is easier to say, Your sins have been forgiven, or to say, Arise and walk?