Verse 3
Matthew 6:3
Young's Literal Translation
3
'But thou, doing kindness, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth,
Original Language Text
greek
σοῦ δὲ ποιοῦντος ἐλεημοσύνην μὴ γνώτω ἡ ἀριστερά σου τί ποιεῖ ἡ δεξιά σου,
English Translation
But when you give alms, let not your left hand know what your right hand is doing.
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Chapter 6 Context
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'Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not -- reward ye have not...
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whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hyp...
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'But thou, doing kindness, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth,
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that thy kindness may be in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret Himself shall reward thee...
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'And when thou mayest pray, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites, because they love in the synagogues...
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'But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father...
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'And -- praying -- ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their mu...
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be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before...
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thus therefore pray ye: 'Our Father who [art] in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.
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'Thy reign come: Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on the earth.
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11
'Our appointed bread give us to-day.
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12
'And forgive us our debts, as also we forgive our debtors.
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13
'And mayest Thou not lead us to temptation, but deliver us from the evil, because Thine is the reign...
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'For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you -- your Father who [is] in the...
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but if ye may not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
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'And when ye may fast, be ye not as the hypocrites, of sour countenances, for they disfigure their f...
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'But thou, fasting, anoint thy head, and wash thy face,
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that thou mayest not appear to men fasting, but to thy Father who [is] in secret, and thy Father, wh...
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'Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thie...
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but treasure up to yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth disfigure, and w...
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for where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.
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'The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enl...
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but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that [is] in thee...
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'None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hol...
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'Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink,...
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look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and you...
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'And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?
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and about clothing why are ye anxious? consider well the lilies of the field; how do they grow? they...
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and I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.
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'And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God (Elohim) do...
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therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put...
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for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all t...
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but seek ye first the reign of God (Elohim) and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to y...
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Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; suffici...
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