Matthew 6:1

Beware of practicing righteousness to be seen by others, or you forfeit your Father's reward. It warns against doing good works for human applause.

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• Matt 23:5All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
• John 12:43For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown for His name as you have ministered to the saints and continue to do so.
• Matt 23:28–30In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
• Luke 16:15So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.
• Matt 6:4–6so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
• Gal 6:12Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.
• Ezek 33:31So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
• John 5:44How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
• 2 Jn 1:8Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.
• Matt 16:6“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• Matt 6:16When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
• Mark 8:15“Watch out!” He cautioned them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod.”
• 2 Cor 9:9–10As it is written: “He has scattered abroad His gifts to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.”
• Luke 12:15And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
• Matt 5:48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
• Matt 5:16In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
• Ps 112:9He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever; his horn will be lifted high in honor.
• Luke 11:35Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness.
• Matt 10:41–42Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.
• 1 Cor 9:17–18If my preaching is voluntary, I have a reward. But if it is not voluntary, I am still entrusted with a responsibility.
• Matt 5:46If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even tax collectors do the same?
• Luke 12:1In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• Dan 4:27Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”
• Matt 25:40And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
• Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
• Zech 7:5“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
• Matt 6:9So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.
• Heb 2:1We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
• Deut 24:13be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.
• Matt 16:27For the Son of Man will come in His Father’s glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done.
• Heb 11:26He valued disgrace for Christ above the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his reward.
• 2 Kgs 10:16saying, “Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD!” So he had him ride in his chariot.
• 2 Kgs 10:31Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
• Zech 13:4And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.

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