Matthew 6

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Matthew 6 confronts religious performance, anxious living, and divided loyalty. It asks whether the Father is enough when no one else is watching.

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Matthew 6 speaks to one of the most respectable forms of spiritual corruption: the desire to seem devout while the heart remains dependent on human notice and earthly security. In Matthew 6:1-6, Jesus strips public righteousness of its glamour. Giving, prayer, and fasting may all be outwardly correct and inwardly rotten when they are performed to be seen. That means the chapter is not first about technique. It is about audience. Who are you really living before? Then Jesus places prayer itself inside that question. The Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 is not a polished formula for religious control. It is the language of a life turned toward the Father’s name, kingdom, will, provision, pardon, and protection. From there the chapter presses into treasure and trust. In Matthew 6:19-24, what a person stores up and serves reveals where the heart already bows. And by Matthew 6:25-34, anxiety is not treated as a minor emotional inconvenience. It is exposed as life lived as though the Father must be supplemented by fear. Matthew 6 matters because it confronts both visible religion and hidden unbelief. It asks whether your piety is truly Father-facing, or whether you are still living to be seen, secured, and justified by things beneath God.

How the chapter unfolds

The chapter moves through hidden righteousness, prayer and fasting, treasure and vision, and finally anxiety and trust.

Why this chapter matters

It matters because it exposes how quickly devotion can become theater and need can become unbelief.

Interpretive tension to watch

Do not isolate the Lord’s Prayer from the chapter’s larger burden. Jesus is not teaching techniques but a Father-facing life that rejects display and anxiety.

この章のための質問

  • How does Matthew 6 expose the difference between devotion before God and performance before people?
  • Why does anxiety in this chapter belong to the same spiritual diagnosis as divided treasure and divided loyalty?
  • What does Jesus reveal about the Father that makes hidden righteousness and radical trust possible?

Study with context

Use this as a chapter guide, then press deeper into the text itself. The goal is to slow down observation, notice structure, and ask better questions before jumping to conclusions.

1 Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven. 2 Therefore when thou dost an almsdeed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. 3 But when thou dost alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth. 4 That thy alms may be in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee. 5 And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee. 7 And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard. 8 Be not you therefore like to them, for your Father knoweth what is needful for you, before you ask him. 9 Thus therefore shall you pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our supersubstantial bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen. 14 For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also your offences. 15 But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your offences. 16 And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. 17 But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face; 18 That thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will repay thee. 19 Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust, and moth consume, and where thieves break through and steal. 20 But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal. 21 For where thy treasure is, there is thy heart also. 22 The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole body shall be lightsome. 23 But if thy eye be evil thy whole body shall be darksome. If then the light that is in thee, be darkness: the darkness itself how great shall it be! 24 No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 25 Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? 26 Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? 27 And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature by one cubit? 28 And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. 29 But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. 30 And if the grass of the field, which is today, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith? 31 Be not solicitous therefore, saying, What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? 32 For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. 33 Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Be not therefore solicitous for tomorrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

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節 6:1-8 Deep

Piety can become theater before it becomes worship

開く

Jesus exposes giving, prayer, and fasting as places where the heart may still crave human notice. The issue is not whether the act is religious, but who it is really performed before.

主要な箇所
節 6:9-15 Standard

Prayer is taught as God-centered dependence, not technique

開く

The Lord’s Prayer trains desire toward the Father’s name, kingdom, will, provision, pardon, and protection. Jesus is not giving a formula for control but a pattern of dependence.

主要な箇所
節 6:19-34 Deep

Treasure and anxiety reveal where the heart has learned to seek safety

開く

Jesus joins treasure, vision, masters, and anxiety because they belong together. Worry is not a random emotional glitch; it often reveals a heart trying to secure life somewhere other than the Father.

💥 Truth

Anxiety is often the liturgy of a heart that still thinks survival depends on itself.

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