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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369807" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bible in Poetry: Gospel of St. Matthew (Chapter 6)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Let righteous deeds be performed then, <br>Such that the people don’t see them; <br>For, otherwise, you can’t expect<br>Reward from your heavenly Father! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘When you give alms, give quietly; <br>Don’t like hypocrites blow trumpet, <br>In synagogues and in the streets<br>To win the praise of all others.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘When you give alms, let your left hand<br>Not know what your right is doing; <br>Let it be secret alms-giving, <br>So that, your Father repays you.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Don’t pray like hypocrites who stand<br>In synagogues and street-corners, <br>And pray so that others can see.’<br>‘They have had their reward, ’ I say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Go to your inner room to pray, <br>And close the door and in secret, <br>Ask your Father all that you want.<br>Your Father then will repay you! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Don’t babble like how pagans do, <br>Who think their prayers will be heard<br>Because they have so many words.<br>Your Father knows before you ask.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, this is how you are to pray: <br>‘Our Father in heaven, <br>Hallowed be your name; <br>Your kingdom come, <br>Your will be done on earth, <br>As it is in heaven.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Give us today our bread; <br>Forgive our debts, <br>As we forgive our debtors; <br>Don’t bring us to the final test; <br>Deliver us from evil One! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Forgive transgressions of others; <br>Then forgive you, will your Father; <br>If you don’t forgive your brothers, <br>Neither will He, you, your Father.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Don’t gloomy be, whenev’r you fast; <br>Your face shouldn’t show that you’re downcast; <br>The hypocrites reveal their fast; <br>Amen, I say, they’ve got reward.<br>Whenev’r you fast, anoint your head, <br>And wash your face to appear fresh; <br>Your Father alone should know it; <br>He’ll repay in a manner fit.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Don’t store for yourself earth’s treasures, <br>Where moth-destroyed and decay sets, <br>And thieves break in to steal them off; <br>Store up your treasures in heaven, <br>Where moth or decay don’t destroy, <br>And thieves don’t break in to steal them.<br>For, where your treasures tends to lie, <br>Your heart will tend to stay near-by! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘The eye serves as the body’s lamp; <br>If eye be sound, body has light; <br>If eye is bad, body has night; <br>If body’s light in darkness stays, <br>How much more darkness, one will face? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Know that one can’t serve two masters; <br>He’ll hate the one and love the next, <br>Or be devoted just to one.’<br>‘You can’t serve God and too mammon.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Is life not more than food and drink? <br>Isn’t body more than just clothing? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Look at the birds of sky so blue; <br>They neither sow nor do they reap; <br>They gather nothing into barns; <br>Yet, your heav’nly Father feeds them! ’<br>Aren’t you more important than they? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Can one of you by worrying add<br>A single moment to life-span? <br>Why are you anxious of your clothes? <br>Learn from the flowers wild to grow; <br>They neither work nor do they spin; <br>I tell you, not ev’n Solomon<br>Was in his splendor, clothed alike, <br>The gorgeous flowers in the wild.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘If God so clothes the grass of fields, <br>Which grow to be thrown in fire, <br>Will He not provide more for you, <br>O you, of little faith. have you? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘So, do not worry what to eat? <br>And do not worry what to drink? <br>And do not worry what to wear? <br>All such things, pagans also seek.<br>Your heav’nly Father knows your need.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘So, seek the kingdom of God first, <br>And seek His righteousness and love; <br>All things will be given besides.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Do not worry about morrow; <br>Tomorrow takes care of itself; <br>Each day has share of own evil! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright by Dr John Celes 5-29-2007</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q>
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