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

Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.

“Whoever, then, acknowledges me before people, I will acknowledge before my Father in heaven.

But whoever denies me before people, I will deny him also before my Father in heaven.

For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears had better listen!

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.”

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

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

Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

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.

But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a dream, he went to the regions of Galilee.

and don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in a boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. Then he called them.

In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.

“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.

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?