Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

So then, be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

“For if you forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

“Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.

And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

so that your gift may be in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.

For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

And he replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.

So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your brother from your heart.”

“But as for that day and hour no one knows it – not even the angels in heaven – except the Father alone.

so that it will not be obvious to others when you are fasting, but only to your Father who is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are?

If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son decides to reveal him.

And Jesus answered him, “You are blessed, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven!

But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.