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But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
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so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
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"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;
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but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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"The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.
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But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
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"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
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"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
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Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
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Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?