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.

Cross-references · 35

• Matt 23:5But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,
• John 12:43for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• Matt 23:28–30Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
• Luke 16:15He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
• Matt 6:4–6so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
• Gal 6:12As many as desire to look good in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
• Ezek 33:31They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
• John 5:44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
• 2 Jn 1:8Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
• Matt 16:6Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• Matt 6:16“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.
• Mark 8:15He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”
• 2 Cor 9:9–10As it is written, “He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”
• Luke 12:15He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
• Matt 5:48Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
• Matt 5:16Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Luke 11:35Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.
• Matt 10:41–42He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward. He who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.
• 1 Cor 9:17–18For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
• Matt 5:46For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?
• Luke 12:1Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• Dan 4:27Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.
• Matt 25:40“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Zech 7:5“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
• Matt 6:9Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.
• Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
• Deut 24:13You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
• Matt 16:27For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
• Heb 11:26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
• 2 Kgs 10:16He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.
• 2 Kgs 10:31But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
• Zech 13:4It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:

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