Matthew 6:12-30 Modern English Version (MEV)

12. And forgive us our debts,as we forgive our debtors.

13. And lead us not into temptation,but deliver us from evil.For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

14. For if you forgive men for their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

15. But if you do not forgive men for their sins, neither will your Father forgive your sins.

16. “Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces so they may appear to men to be fasting. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

17. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

18. so that you will not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

19. “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

20. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroy and where thieves do not break in nor steal,

21. for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

22. “The light of the body is the eye. Therefore, if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.

23. But if your eye is unclear, your whole body will be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

24. “No one 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. You cannot serve God and money.

25. “Therefore, I say to you, take no thought about your life, what you will eat, or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body than clothing?

26. Look at the birds of the air, for they do not sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?

27. Who among you by taking thought can add a cubit to his stature?

28. “Why take thought about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: They neither work, nor do they spin.

29. Yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.

30. Therefore, if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is here and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

Matthew 6