Sermon on the Mount §som_10_giving_in_secret: "Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen b...
Source: The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) (som_10_giving_in_secret) · words_in_red
"Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does, so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: Codex Sinaiticus — Matthew 5-7 complete
- manuscript_tradition: Codex Vaticanus — Matthew 5-7 complete
- manuscript_tradition: Papyrus 64 (c. AD 200) — earliest Matthew fragments
- translation: Multiple modern translations: WEB, ESV, NIV, KJV, NASB
- citation_tradition: Quoted by Didache, 1 Clement, Justin Martyr — earliest extra-NT witnesses