Codex Vaticanus: Novum Testamentum Graece

ACCORDING TO MATTHEW###

VI.

nor does decay original: βρῶσις; literally "eating," referring to the consumption by rust or pests. destroy, and where thieves do not break in, nor
21 steal. For where your treasure is, there will your
22 37 ΛΖ: Eusebian section number 37. heart be also. The lamp of the body is your eye; if therefore
your eye is clear original: ἁπλοῦς; literally "single" or "sincere," implying a healthy, focused vision., your whole body will be full of light.
23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be dark;
if then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 38 ΛΗ: Eusebian section number 38. No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate*
* Note by a second scribe: "will hate" (correcting a spelling error in the original text). the one, and love the other; or he will be devoted to one, and
25 despise the other; you cannot serve God and mammon μαμωνᾷ: An Aramaic term for wealth or property, often personified as a false god.. Therefore I
* The manuscript reads "our." say to you: do not be anxious for your life*, what you shall eat or what you shall drink;
nor for your body, what you shall put on; is not the life more than
26 food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the
birds of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor
gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds
27 them; are you not worth much more than they? Which of you by
28 worrying can add one cubit πῆχυν: A unit of measure roughly the length of a forearm; here it refers to adding a small span to one's life or stature. to his height? And
why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how
29 they grow; they do not labor, nor do they spin. Yet I say to you, that not even
30 Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of these. But
if the grass of the field, which exists today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven*
* Note by a second scribe: "oven" (correcting the spelling of κλίβανον)., God so clothes it, will he not much more clothe you,
31 O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying: what shall we eat, or what
32 shall we drink, or what shall we wear? For all these things the Gentiles
seek; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all
33 these things. But seek first his righteousness and his kingdom,
and all these things will be added to you.
34 Therefore do not be anxious
for tomorrow; for tomorrow will be anxious for itself; sufficient for the
day is its own trouble.