BIBLE IN TEN

Friday, 17 January 2025   “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Matthew 6:25   “Through this, I say to you, not you disquiet your soul – what you may eat and what you may drink, nor your body – what you may don. Not more, it is, the soul...

Thursday, 16 January 2025   “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew 6:24   “None, he is able, to serve two lords. Or – for he will detest the one and he will love the other. Or – he will enclasp one, and the other he will disesteem. Not you are able to serv...

Wednesday, 15 January 2025   But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew 6:23   “And if your eye, it may be evil, all your body – it will be benighted. Therefore, if the light, in you it is darkness, the darkness – how much” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus noted that the lamp of the bo...

Tuesday, 14 January 2025   “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. Matthew 6:22   “The lamp of the body, it is the eye. Therefore, if your eye, it may be unblurred, your whole body – it will be lustrous” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus finished His thoughts about earthly treasures as opposed to heavenly treasures. He now provides...

Monday, 13 January 2025   For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21   “For where your treasure, it is, there also your heart, it will be” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus spoke of amassing treasures in heaven, noting that earthly treasures can be stolen or eaten up. With that remembered, He next says, “For where your treasure, it is, there also your heart, it will...

Sunday, 12 January 2025   but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. Matthew 6:20   “And you, amass – yourselves – treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor an eating – it evaporates, and where stealers – they tunnel not, nor they steal” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus noted that His disciples shouldn’t am...

Saturday, 11 January 2025   “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; Matthew 6:19   “You amass, not – yourselves – treasures upon the earth, where moth and an eating – it evaporates, and where stealers – they tunnel, and they steal” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus explained what was correct concerning proper fasting. H...

Friday, 10 January 2025   so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. Matthew 6:18   “That not you may appear to men fasting, but to your Father, the ‘in the secret,’ and your Father, the ‘seeing in the secret,’ He will reward you in the manifest” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus noted...

Thursday, 9 January 2025   But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, Matthew 6:17   “And you, fasting, you anoint your head, and your face - you wash” (CG).   Jesus just stated words concerning how the hypocrites fast, noting that in their hypocrisy, they have received their reward. Now, instructing His disciples on how fasting should be conducted, He says, “And you, fasting, yo...

Wednesday, 8 January 2025   “Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. Matthew 6:16   “And when you may fast, you be not just as the hypocrites, sullen-faces. For they mask their appearance that they may appear fasting to men. Amen! I say...

Tuesday, 7 January 2025   But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matthew 6:15   “And if not you may forgive men their transgressions, neither – your Father – He will forgive your transgressions” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus said, “For if you may forgive men their transgressions, also your Father, the Heavenly, He will forgive you.”...

Monday, 6 January 2025   “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Matthew 6:14   “For if you may forgive men their transgressions, also your Father, the Heavenly, He will forgive you” (CG).   The previous verse completed the words of the Lord’s prayer. With that now finished, He makes a statement that must be based on one of the thoughts in the Lord’s p...

Sunday, 5 January 2025   And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Matthew 6:13   “And not may You lead us into temptation, but rescue us from the evil. For Yours, it is, the kingdom, and the power, and the glory to the ages. Amen” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus spoke of the forgiving of debts. No...

Saturday, 4 January 2025   And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. Matthew 6:12   “And You forgive us our debts as also we, we forgive our debtors” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus included the thought of receiving one’s necessary bread as a part of the Lord’s Prayer. He now continues with, “And You forgive us our debts.”   The word translated as debt is opheiléma. It is found onl...

Friday, 3 January 2025   Give us this day our daily bread. Matthew 6:11   “Our necessary bread, You give us today” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus referred to the coming of the kingdom and doing God’s will on earth as it is in heaven. With such petitions set forth for the glory of God, He now turns to one’s earthly need, saying, “Our necessary bread.”   This Greek word is found only in the Lo...

Thursday, 2 January 2025   Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:10   “Your kingdom – it come. Your will – it be done as in heaven, even upon the earth” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus began His words concerning the manner of prayer that is appropriate. He continues that example with “Your kingdom – it come.”   There are various views on what Jesus is ref...

Wednesday, 1 January 2025   In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Matthew 6:9   “Therefore, thus you – you pray: ‘Our Father, the ‘in the heavens,’ it be hallowed – Your name” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus said that the Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Therefore, rather than focusing on the needs, focusing on other things is appropriate....

Tuesday, 31 December 2024   “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. Matthew 6:8   “Therefore not you resemble them, for your Father, He has known, what you have need before you ask of Him” (CG).   The previous verse gave Jesus’ words concerning using stammer-speak in one’s prayers. Now, to continue that thought, he says, “Therefore not...

Monday, 30 December 2024   And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. Matthew 6:7   “And praying, not you shall stammerer-speak just as the ethnicities. For they think that in their verbosity they will be heard” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus spoke about the appropriate way to pray, meaning by doing it in sec...

Sunday, 29 December 2024   But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. Matthew 6:6   “And you, when you may pray, you enter into your chamber, and having closed your door, you pray to your Father, the ‘in the secret.’ And your Father, the ‘seeing in the secret...

Saturday, 28 December 2024   “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. Matthew 6:5   “And when you may pray, not you will be just as the hypocrites, for they love to pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the plazas...

Friday, 27 December 2024   that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly. Matthew 6:4   “that your compassionateness – it may be in secret. And your Father, the ‘seeing in the secret,’ He will reward you in the revealed” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus told His disciples that when they were doing charitable deeds that they were n...

Thursday, 26 December 2024   But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, Matthew 6:3   “And you doing compassionateness, not it know your left what it does your right” (CG).   In the previous verse, Jesus told His disciples to not trumpet their charitable deeds before others like the hypocrites do. In doing so, there will be no reward from the F...

Wednesday, 25 December 2024   Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. Matthew 6:2   “Therefore, when you do compassionateness, you trumpet not before you just as the hypocrites – they do – in the synagogues and in the str...

Tuesday, 24 December 2024   “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Matthew 6:1   “You beware of your compassionateness, not to do before men to be seen by them. And if otherwise, no reward you have from your Father, the ‘in the heavens’” (CG).   The previous verse concluded Matthew 5. Matthew 6 be...