Friday, July 10

¹⁹“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and devouring insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal. ²⁰But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and devouring insect do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

²²“The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. ²³But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

²⁴“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

²⁵“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t there more to life than food and more to the body than clothing? ²⁶Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are? ²⁷And which of you by worrying can add even one hour to his life? ²⁸Why do you worry about clothing? Think about how the flowers of the field grow; they do not work or spin. ²⁹Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these! ³⁰And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won’t he clothe you even more, you people of little faith? ³¹So then, don’t worry saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ ³²For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴So then, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.

¹“Do not judge so that you will not be judged. ²For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive. ³Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own? ⁴Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own? ⁵You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. ⁶Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.

⁷“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. ⁸For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. ⁹Is there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? ¹¹If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! ¹²In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.

¹³“Enter through the narrow gate because the gate is wide and the way is spacious that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. ¹⁴How narrow is the gate and difficult the way that leads to life, and there are few who find it!