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Take care not to do your good deeds publicly or before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you will have no reward [[a]reserved for and awaiting you] with and from your Father Who is in heaven.

Thus, whenever you give to the poor, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites in the synagogues and in the streets like to do, that they may be [b]recognized and honored and praised by men. Truly I tell you, they have their reward [c]in full already.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:1 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  2. Matthew 6:2 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  3. Matthew 6:2 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.

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