The Perfect Prayer

St Matthew 6 Verse 6
 
 
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are ... for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets ... that they may be seen of men.
 
Verily I say unto you ... they have their reward.
 
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father ... and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
 
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do ... for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
 
But not ye therefore like unto them ... for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of ... before ye ask him.
 
After this manner therefore pray ye:
 
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name.
 
Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
 
Give us this day our daily bread.
 
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
 
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
 
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
 
Amen.


Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.
 
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.
 
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 
 
The light of the body is the eye ... if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
 
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness.
 
If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
 
No man 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.
 
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.


Take therefore no thought for the morrow ... for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself ... sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.