So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.

The Lord’s Prayer

“Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father, who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.

For if you forgive other people for their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

But if you do not forgive other people, then your Father will not forgive your offenses.

so that your fasting will not be noticed by people but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

Look at the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather crops into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more important than they?

For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

So if you, despite being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

And another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

For it is not you who are speaking, but it is the Spirit of your Father who is speaking in you.

“Now brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

Are two sparrows not sold for an assarion? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.

“Therefore, everyone who confesses Me before people, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.

But whoever denies Me before people, I will also deny him before My Father who is in heaven.

For I came to turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;

“The one who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and the one who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

Come to Me

At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to infants.

Yes, Father, for this way was well pleasing in Your sight.

All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son determines to reveal Him.

For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother, and sister, and mother.”

Then the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears, let him hear.

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.’

But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever I have that would help you has been given to God,”

he is not to honor his father or mother.’ And by this you have invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition.