16. And when you fast, do not choose to become gloomy, like the hypocrites. For they alter their faces, so that their fasting may be apparent to men. Amen I say to you, that they have received their reward.
17. But as for you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
18. so that your fasting will not be apparent to men, but to your Father, who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.
19. Do not choose to store up for yourselves treasures on earth: where rust and moth consume, and where thieves break in and steal.
20. Instead, store up for yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither rust nor moth consumes, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
21. For where your treasure is, there also is your heart.
22. The lamp of your body is your eye. If your eye is wholesome, your entire body will be filled with light.
23. But if your eye has been corrupted, your entire body will be darkened. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great will that darkness be!
24. No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will have hatred for the one, and love the other, or he will persevere with the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
25. And so I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, as to what you will eat, nor about your body, as to what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26. Consider the birds of the air, how they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much greater value than they are?
27. And which of you, by thinking, is able to add one cubit to his stature?
28. And as for clothing, why are you anxious? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither work nor weave.
29. But I say to you, that not even Solomon, in all his glory, was arrayed like one of these.
30. So if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and cast into the oven tomorrow, how much more will he care for you, O little in faith?