My mini-Gospel

Jesus said, “No one can be the slave of two masters; they will either hate the first and love the second, or treat the first with respect and the second with scorn. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.” (Matthew 6:24)

“That is why I am telling you not to worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and how to clothe it. Surely life means more than food, and the body more than clothing! Look at the birds in the sky. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they are? Can you, for all your worrying, add one single inch to your span of life? And why worry about clothing? Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin; yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his regalia was robed as one of these. Now if that is how God clothes the grass in the field, will he not much more look after you? So do not worry: do not say, ‘What are we to eat? What are we to drink?’ Your heavenly Father knows you need them all.” (Matthew 6:25-34)

“Ask, and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For the one who asks always receives; the one who searches always finds; the one who knocks will always have the door opened to them. Know your Father in heaven will give good things to those who ask him!” (Mathew 7:7-11)

“So you should pray like this:

 Our Father in heaven,

 may you be held holy,

 your kingdom come,

 your will be done

 on earth as in heaven.

 Give us today our daily bread.

 And forgive us our sins,

 as we forgive those who sin against us.

 Give us strength when we face tests,

 and rescue us from the forces of evil.”

 (Matthew 6:7-13)

Adapted

Jerusalem Bible London 1966