Matthew · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Matthew 6 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Προσέχετε να μη κάμνητε την ελεημοσύνην σας έμπροσθεν των ανθρώπων διά να βλέπησθε υπ' αυτών· ει δε μη, δεν έχετε μισθόν πλησίον του Πατρός σας του εν τοις ουρανοίς.
1 “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.
2 Όταν λοιπόν κάμνης ελεημοσύνην, μη σαλπίσης έμπροσθέν σου, καθώς κάμνουσιν οι υποκριταί εν ταις συναγωγαίς και εν ταις οδοίς, διά να δοξασθώσιν υπό των ανθρώπων· αληθώς σας λέγω, έχουσιν ήδη τον μισθόν αυτών.
2 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.
3 Όταν δε συ κάμνης ελεημοσύνην, ας μη γνωρίση η αριστερά σου τι κάμνει η δεξιά σου,
3 But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,
4 διά να ήναι η ελεημοσύνη σου εν τω κρυπτώ, και ο Πατήρ σου ο βλέπων εν τω κρυπτώ αυτός θέλει σοι ανταποδώσει εν τω φανερώ.
4 so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
5 Και όταν προσεύχησαι, μη έσο ως οι υποκριταί, διότι αγαπώσι να προσεύχωνται ιστάμενοι εν ταις συναγωγαίς και εν ταις γωνίαις των πλατειών, διά να φανώσιν εις τους ανθρώπους· αληθώς σας λέγω ότι έχουσιν ήδη τον μισθόν αυτών.
5 “When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
6 Συ όμως, όταν προσεύχησαι, είσελθε εις το ταμείον σου, και κλείσας την θύραν σου προσευχήθητι εις τον Πατέρα σου τον εν τω κρυπτώ, και ο Πατήρ σου ο βλέπων εν τω κρυπτώ θέλει σοι ανταποδώσει εν τω φανερώ.
6 But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
7 Όταν δε προσεύχησθε, μη βαττολογήσητε ως οι εθνικοί· διότι νομίζουσιν ότι με την πολυλογίαν αυτών θέλουσιν εισακουσθή.
7 In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
8 Μη ομοιωθήτε λοιπόν με αυτούς· διότι εξεύρει ο Πατήρ σας τίνων έχετε χρείαν, πριν σεις ζητήσητε παρ' αυτού.
8 Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him.
9 Ούτω λοιπόν προσεύχεσθε σείς· Πάτερ ημών ο εν τοις ουρανοίς· αγιασθήτω το όνομά σου·
9 Pray like this: “‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
10 ελθέτω η βασιλεία σου· γενηθήτω το θέλημά σου, ως εν ουρανώ, και επί της γής·
10 Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
11 τον άρτον ημών τον επιούσιον δος εις ημάς σήμερον·
11 Give us today our daily bread.
12 και συγχώρησον εις ημάς τας αμαρτίας ημών, καθώς και ημείς συγχωρούμεν εις τους αμαρτάνοντας εις ημάς·
12 Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
13◆ και μη φέρης ημάς εις πειρασμόν, αλλά ελευθέρωσον ημάς από του πονηρού. Διότι σου είναι η βασιλεία και η δύναμις και η δόξα εις τους αιώνας· αμήν.
13 Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’
14 Διότι εάν συγχωρήσητε εις τους ανθρώπους τα πταίσματα αυτών, θέλει συγχωρήσει και εις εσάς ο Πατήρ σας ο ουράνιος·
14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15 εάν όμως δεν συγχωρήσητε εις τους ανθρώπους τα πταίσματα αυτών, ουδέ ο Πατήρ σας θέλει συγχωρήσει τα πταίσματά σας.
15 But if you don’t forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
16 Και όταν νηστεύητε, μη γίνεσθε ως οι υποκριταί σκυθρωποί· διότι αφανίζουσι τα πρόσωπα αυτών, διά να φανώσιν εις τους ανθρώπους ότι νηστεύουσιν· αληθώς σας λέγω, ότι έχουσιν ήδη τον μισθόν αυτών.
16 “Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
17 Συ όμως όταν νηστεύης, άλειψον την κεφαλήν σου και νίψον το πρόσωπόν σου,
17 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
18 διά να μη φανής εις τους ανθρώπους ότι νηστεύεις, αλλ' εις τον Πατέρα σου τον εν τω κρυπτώ, και ο Πατήρ σου ο βλέπων εν τω κρυπτώ θέλει σοι ανταποδώσει εν τω φανερώ.
18 so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
19 Μη θησαυρίζετε εις εαυτούς θησαυρούς επί της γης, όπου σκώληξ και σκωρία αφανίζει και όπου κλέπται διατρυπούσι και κλέπτουσιν.
19 “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
20 Αλλά θησαυρίζετε εις εαυτούς θησαυρούς εν ουρανώ, όπου ούτε σκώληξ ούτε σκωρία αφανίζει και όπου κλέπται δεν διατρυπούσιν ουδέ κλέπτουσιν·
20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;
21 επειδή όπου είναι ο θησαυρός σας, εκεί θέλει είσθαι και η καρδία σας.
21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22 Ο λύχνος του σώματος είναι ο οφθαλμός· εάν λοιπόν ο οφθαλμός σου ήναι καθαρός, όλον το σώμα σου θέλει είσθαι φωτεινόν·
22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.
23 εάν όμως ο οφθαλμός σου ήναι πονηρός, όλον το σώμα σου θέλει είσθαι σκοτεινόν. Εάν λοιπόν το φως το εν σοι ήναι σκότος, το σκότος πόσον;
23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
24 Ουδείς δύναται δύο κυρίους να δουλεύη· διότι ή τον ένα θέλει μισήσει και τον άλλον θέλει αγαπήσει, ή εις τον ένα θέλει προσκολληθή και τον άλλον θέλει καταφρονήσει. Δεν δύνασθε να δουλεύητε Θεόν και μαμμωνά.
24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.
25 Διά τούτο σας λέγω, μη μεριμνάτε περί της ζωής σας τι να φάγητε και τι να πίητε, μηδέ περί του σώματός σας τι να ενδυθήτε· δεν είναι η ζωή τιμιώτερον της τροφής και το σώμα του ενδύματος;
25 Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26 Εμβλέψατε εις τα πετεινά του ουρανού, ότι δεν σπείρουσιν ουδέ θερίζουσιν ουδέ συνάγουσιν εις αποθήκας, και ο Πατήρ σας ο ουράνιος τρέφει αυτά· σεις δεν είσθε πολύ ανώτεροι αυτών;
26 See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
27 Αλλά τις από σας μεριμνών δύναται να προσθέση μίαν πήχην εις το ανάστημα αυτού;
27 “Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
28 Και περί ενδύματος τι μεριμνάτε; Παρατηρήσατε τα κρίνα του αγρού πως αυξάνουσι· δεν κοπιάζουσιν ουδέ κλώθουσι.
28 Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,
29 Σας λέγω όμως ότι ουδέ ο Σολομών εν πάση τη δόξη αυτού ενεδύθη ως εν τούτων.
29 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
30 Αλλ' εάν τον χόρτον του αγρού, όστις σήμερον υπάρχει και αύριον ρίπτεται εις κλίβανον, ο Θεός ενδύη ούτω, δεν θέλει ενδύσει πολλώ μάλλον εσάς, ολιγόπιστοι;
30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
31 Μη μεριμνήσητε λοιπόν λέγοντες, Τι να φάγωμεν ή τι να πίωμεν ή τι να ενδυθώμεν;
31 “Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’
32 Διότι πάντα ταύτα ζητούσιν οι εθνικοί· επειδή εξεύρει ο Πατήρ σας ο ουράνιος ότι έχετε χρείαν πάντων τούτων.
32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33 Αλλά ζητείτε πρώτον την βασιλείαν του Θεού και την δικαιοσύνην αυτού, και ταύτα πάντα θέλουσι σας προστεθή.
33 But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
34 Μη μεριμνήσητε λοιπόν περί της αύριον· διότι η αύριον θέλει μεριμνήσει τα εαυτής· αρκετόν είναι εις την ημέραν το κακόν αυτής.
34 Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
Cross references (34)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Matthew 23:5; John 12:43; Hebrews 6:10; Matthew 23:28–30; Luke 16:15
- 2 Matthew 6:5; 2 Corinthians 9:6–15; John 5:41; Matthew 6:16; James 2:15–16
- 3 John 7:4; Matthew 9:30; Mark 1:44; Matthew 12:19
- 4 Matthew 6:18; Matthew 6:6; Jeremiah 17:10; Luke 14:14; Psalm 44:21
- 5 Matthew 6:2; Luke 18:10–11; Luke 18:13; Mark 11:25; Isaiah 55:6–7
- 6 2 Kings 4:33; Matthew 14:23; Isaiah 65:24; Acts 9:40; Psalm 34:15
- 7 Ecclesiastes 5:2–3; Ecclesiastes 5:7; 1 Kings 18:26–29; Matthew 6:32; Matthew 26:44
- 8 Matthew 6:32; Luke 12:30; Philippians 4:6; John 16:23–27; Psalm 38:9
- 9 Luke 11:1–4; Revelation 4:11; Romans 8:15; Isaiah 64:8; Psalm 111:9
- 10 Hebrews 10:36; Matthew 26:42; Matthew 12:50; John 4:34; 1 Thessalonians 5:18
- 11 Proverbs 30:8; Luke 11:3; Matthew 4:4; Psalm 34:10; John 6:31–59
- 12 Ephesians 4:32; Mark 11:25; Ephesians 1:7; Matthew 18:21–35; Colossians 3:13
- 13 1 Corinthians 10:13; John 17:15; Revelation 7:14–17; Matthew 26:41; 2 Thessalonians 3:3
- 14 Ephesians 4:32; Mark 11:25; Colossians 3:13; Matthew 7:2; James 2:13
- 15 Matthew 18:35
- 16 Isaiah 58:3–5; Matthew 9:14–15; Nehemiah 1:4; Daniel 9:3; Psalm 69:10
- 17 Ruth 3:3; Ecclesiastes 9:8; 2 Samuel 12:20; Daniel 10:2–3; 2 Samuel 14:2
- 18 Matthew 6:6; Matthew 6:4; 2 Corinthians 10:18; 2 Corinthians 5:9; 1 Peter 2:13
- 19 Hebrews 13:5; 1 John 2:15–16; Luke 12:21; Proverbs 23:4–5; James 5:1–3
- 20 Luke 12:33; Matthew 19:21; 1 Timothy 6:19; James 2:5; Luke 18:22
- 21 Colossians 3:1–3; Luke 12:34; 2 Corinthians 4:18; Proverbs 4:23; Isaiah 33:6
- 22 Luke 11:34–36; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Colossians 3:22
- 23 1 John 2:11; Matthew 6:22; Isaiah 5:20–21; Jeremiah 4:22; Proverbs 26:12
- 24 1 John 2:15–16; Luke 16:13; James 4:4; 1 Timothy 6:9–10; Joshua 24:15
- 25 Philippians 4:6; Romans 8:32; 1 Peter 5:7; Psalm 55:22; Luke 12:22–31
- 26 Matthew 10:29–31; Psalm 147:9; Luke 12:24–32; Job 38:41; Psalm 145:15–16
- 27 Luke 12:25–26; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Matthew 5:36; Psalm 39:5–6; 1 Corinthians 12:18
- 28 Matthew 6:25; Philippians 4:6; Luke 12:27; Luke 22:35–36; Matthew 6:31
- 29 2 Chronicles 9:20–22; 2 Chronicles 9:4–6; 1 Timothy 2:9–10; 1 Kings 10:4–7; 1 Peter 3:2–5
- 30 Luke 12:28; Matthew 14:31; 1 Peter 1:24; Matthew 8:26; Matthew 16:8
- 31 1 Peter 5:7; Luke 12:29; Matthew 4:4; Psalm 55:22; Matthew 15:33
- 32 Matthew 6:8; Luke 12:30; Ephesians 4:17; Luke 11:11–13; Psalm 17:14
- 33 Luke 12:31; Matthew 5:6; John 6:27; Psalm 34:9–10; Psalm 84:11–12
- 34 Matthew 6:25; John 14:27; Hebrews 13:5–6; John 16:33; Luke 11:3
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Why does my Bible say something different?
- Matthew 6:13: “For thine is the kingdom…”
The closing doxology of the Lord’s Prayer, “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,” is missing from the oldest Greek manuscripts of Matthew and from most of the Latin tradition, but it is very old: a shorter form already appears in the Didache. The Patriarchal Text includes it, and in the Divine Liturgy the priest sings it in a Trinitarian form. Most scholars see it as an early liturgical response that entered the text.
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
The order established for your edification requires that ye learn first what to believe, and afterwards what to ask. For so saith the Apostle, "Whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord, shall be saved." This testimony blessed Paul cited out of the Prophet; for by the Prophet were those times foretold, when all men should call upon God; …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
He roots out in what remains the most tyrannical passion of all, the rage and madness with respect to vainglory, which springs up in them that do right.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Lay up treasure, therefore, in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt." And, "Be ye kind and merciful, as your Father also is kind and merciful, and maketh His sun to rise on sinners, and the righteous, and the wicked.
In like manner also, that [text] which says, "Ye cannot serve two masters," He does Himself interpret, saying, "Ye cannot serve God and mammon;" acknowledging God indeed as God, but mentioning mammon, a thing having also an existence.
… unto me, through that Medicine of our wounds who hung upon the tree, and who, sitting at Thy right hand, "maketh intercession for us." I know that she acted mercifully, and from the heart forgave her debtors their debts; do Thou also forgive her debts, whatever she contracted during so many years since the water of salvation.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)