Introducing the Unitarian Standard Version Bible
References Used in the Unitarian Standard Version
Read Matthew 1 and 2 here...Read Matthew 3 here...Read Matthew 4 here...Read Matthew 5 here
Textual changes are underlined.
1 But take heed that ye do not your
righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no
reward with your Father who is in heaven.
2 When therefore thou doest alms, sound not
a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues
and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I
say unto you, They have received their reward. 3 But when thou
doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand
doeth: 4 that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who
seeth in secret shall reward thee.
5 And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the
hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues
and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward. 6 But
thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and
having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret, and
thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward thee. 7 And in
praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they
think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8
Be not therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what
things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 9 After this manner
therefore pray ye. Our Father(a) who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as
in heaven, so on earth.
11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our
debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And bring us not
into temptation, but deliver us from the evil [one.](b)
14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father
will also forgive you. 15 But if ye forgive not men,
neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. [For thine is
the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.](c)
16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the
hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their
faces, that they may be seen of men to fast. Verily I say unto
you, They have received their reward. 17 But thou, when thou
fastest, anoint thy head, and wash thy face; 18 that thou
be not seen of men to fast, but of thy Father who is in secret:
and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall reward thee.
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon
the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break
through and steal: 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where
thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 for where thy
treasure is, there will thy heart be also. 22 The lamp of the
body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole
body shall be full of light. 23 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 the darkness! 24 No
man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the
other. Ye cannot serve God and riches. 25 Therefore I say unto
you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye
shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not
the life more than the food, and the body than the dress? 26
Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do
they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father
feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value then they? 27 And
which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure
of his life? 28 And why are ye anxious concerning dress?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not,
neither do they spin: 29 yet I say unto you, that even Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if
God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and
to-morrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more
[clothe] you, O ye of little faith? 31 Be not therefore anxious,
saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or,
Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 For after all these things
do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye
have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom
of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall
be added unto you. 34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow:
for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof.
Footnotes
(a) "The Lord's Prayer teaches us,
.... that we should pray to God only, and to him as our Father,
through Jesus Christ our Lord." — ARCHBISHOP WAKE: Comm. on
Church Catechism, pp. 130_1, apud Dr. Samuel Clarke, part ii. §
44.
"We are Christ's disciples, as well as they to whom this prayer
was given, and so must very fitly use that prayer which is a
badge of a disciple of this Lord. The prayer itself is of all
others the most excellent and comprehensive, and as plain as it
is full. .... It was composed by him who had the Spirit above
measure, as a direction how and what to pray. ... This (the
phrase, Our Father which art in heaven], being spoken to his
disciples, who were Jews, and had no distinct notion of a
Trinity, must be understood in the usual notion of the Jews, who
styled the God of Israel our Father, and so must signify the
first person in the Sacred Trinity; they not being able to
apprehend it otherwise. Moreover, our Lord still calls the God
of Israel his heavenly Father, Matt. 7:21 ; 10:32, 33; 11:25;
12:50; 15:13; 16:17; 18:10, 19, 35. Luke 10:22; clearly
distinguishing himself in person from that heavenly Father with
whom in essence he was one. This phrase must therefore
necessarily signify a distinct person from the Son; nor is it
certain that it ever bears any other sense in the New
Testament." — Dr. WHITBY (JW)
(b) "deliver us from the
evil [one]" as opposed to
"deliver us from evil" as the Greek Text has the definite
article TOU.
(c) [For thine is the kingdom, and the
power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.] While this doxology is wanting in many ancient
mss, E.W. Bullinger and Adam Clarke argue that this text should
not be omitted. The word AMEN translated as such only
appears once in the ASV Gospels at Mark 16:20.
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