The Newe Testament (Tyndale, 1526)

Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much babbling's sake. Do not be like them, therefore. For your Father knows what you have need of before you ask of him. After this manner, therefore, pray:

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Let your kingdom come. Your will be fulfilled, as well in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, even as we forgive those who trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, Amen.

For and if you shall forgive other men their trespasses, your Father in heaven shall also forgive you. But and if you will not forgive men their trespasses, no more shall your Father forgive your trespasses.

¶ Moreover, when you fast, be not sad as the hypocrites are. For they disfigure their faces, so that it might appear to men that they fast. Verily I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that it appear not to men how you fast: but to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly.

¶ Gather not treasure together on earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. But gather treasure together in heaven, where neither rust nor moths corrupt, and where thieves neither break up nor yet steal. For wherever your treasure is, there are your hearts also.

¶ The light of your body is your eye. Wherefore

if your eye be single, all your body is full of light. But if your eye be wicked, then is all your body full of darkness. Wherefore if the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness?

¶ No man can serve two masters. For either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall lean to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you: be not anxious for your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; nor yet for your body, what raiment you shall wear. Is not the life more worth than meat? And the body more of value than raiment?

¶ Behold the birds of the air: for they sow not, neither reap, nor yet carry into the barns; and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not better than they?

¶ Which of you (though he take thought takes thought: worries or is anxious therefore) could put one cubit to his stature? And why do you care then for raiment? Behold the lilies of the field, how they grow. They labor not, neither spin. And yet for all that, I say to you that even Solomon in all his royalty was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore if God so clothes the grass, which is today in the field and tomorrow shall be cast into the furnace, shall he not much more do the same to you, O you of little faith?

¶ Therefore take no thought, saying: "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "Wherewith shall we be clothed?" (For after all these things the Gentiles seek). For your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. But rather seek first the kingdom of heaven, and the

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