John 16:23-27; Luke 12:30; Matthew 6:32; Philippians 4:6; Psalms 38:9; Psalms 69:17-19
The fulfilled Law in Relation to the Life of the Pharisees. Mt. only, though the digression on Prayer ( Matthew 6:7-15 ) has parallels in Lk. M...
knoweth. Greek. oida. Very significant in this connection.
8. For your Father knoweth This single remedy is sufficient for removing and destroying the superstition which is here condemned. For whence...
DISCOURSE: 1312 DIRECTIONS RESPECTING PRAYER Matthew 6:5-8 . And when thou prayest, thou shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pr...
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. Your Father knoweth what things ye have n...
Be not ye therefore like unto them— This argument would be forcible against all prayer in general, if prayer were considered only as a means of mak...
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. Be not ye therefore like unto the...
The Sermon on the Mount (continued) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expec...
Maxims for prayer, and the Lord's Prayer . Perhaps the most significant v. of this section is Matthew 6:8 , 'Your Father knoweth what things ye hav...
Prayer is not to inform God of our needs, as the heathen think, but that we may have conscious communion with Him as His children.
Your Father knoweth. — This truth is rightly made the ground of prayer in one of the noblest collects of the Prayer Book of the English Church — “A...
Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to...
Secret Giving and Secret Praying Matthew 6:1-8 First we have the general proposition that righteousness, that is, one's religious duties, shoul...
In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great...
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. Here the LORD speaks of prayer, and whic...
Be not ye therefore like unto them ,..... Do not be imitators of them, and follow their ways, who have only the dim light of nature to guide them; i...
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. Ver. 8. Be not ye therefore like unto...
When ye pray, use not vain repetitions A multiplicity of words without meaning, or uttered without seriousness, reverence for God, sincerity, or fa...
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we ex...
The Sermon on the Mount. 5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocr...
Ver. 7,8. It appeareth from hence, and from what followeth also, that the praying here spoken of is vocal prayer; not the mere homage which the heart...
Their Religious Exercises Are To Be Known Only To The Father And Not To Men (6:1-18). We will now, therefore, initially consider together the firs...
How Not To Pray (6:7-9a). Having gone quietly and secretly into a private room the next question was as to what kind of praying to avoid. The poin...
“Do not therefore be like them, For your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him. After this manner therefore pray you.” So...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 6:1 . Alms .— Righteousness (R.V.) is probably correct and shows the connection between this chapter and the preceding,...
Matthew 6:5-9 I. "When thou prayest," the Lord says, "thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues an...
Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. O...
Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. T...
Matthew 6:5 . And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners o...
Matthew 6:1 . Take heed that ye do not your alms before men. It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had...
But when ye pray. Prayer forbidden I. Let us endeavour to explain the nature of the evils here forbidden. 1. Vain repetitions. 2. Much sp...
EXPOSITION Matthew 6:1-40 The relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day ( continued ); vide Matthew 5:17 , n...
Warning against such absurd practices: Be not ye therefore like unto them; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask Him....
The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) Matthew 5:43-48 ; Matthew 6:1-15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. A FOURFOLD COMMAND 1. "Love your enemies." Th...
Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of — We do not pray to inform God of our wants. Omniscient as he is, he cannot be informed of any thin...
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.