Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
so that thy charity may be in secret. And thy Father who sees in secret will himself reward thee in the open.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
so that your giving may be done in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you."
American Standard Version
that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
so that your giving to poor people may be done secretly. Then your Father, who sees what is done secretly, will pay you back.
Anderson New Testament
that your charitable deeds may be in secret; and. your Father, who sees in secret, himself will reward you openly.
Bible in Basic English
So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
Common New Testament
so that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Daniel Mace New Testament
that your alms may be secret: and your father who sees your secret actions, shall reward you.
Darby Translation
so that thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will render it to thee.
Godbey New Testament
in order that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee openly.
Goodspeed New Testament
so that your charity may be secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.
John Wesley New Testament
That thy alms may be in secret, and thy father who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
Julia Smith Translation
That thine alms might be in secret; and thy Father, who seeing in secret, shall give back to thee openly.
King James 2000
That your alms may be in secret: and your Father who sees in secret himself shall reward you openly.
Lexham Expanded Bible
in order that your charitable giving may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Modern King James verseion
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret Himself shall reward you openly.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that thine alms may be secret: and thy father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
Moffatt New Testament
so as to keep your alms secret; then your Father who sees what is secret will reward you openly.
Montgomery New Testament
"so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
NET Bible
so that your gift may be in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
New Heart English Bible
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Noyes New Testament
that thine alms may be in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will reward thee.
Sawyer New Testament
that your charity may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you.
The Emphasized Bible
that thine alms may be in secret, - and, thy Father, who seeth in secret, will give it back to thee.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will himself reward thee openly.
Twentieth Century New Testament
So that your charity may be secret; and your Father, who sees what is in secret, will recompense you.
Webster
That thy alms may be in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret, himself will reward thee openly.
Weymouth New Testament
that your charities may be in secret; and then your Father--He who sees in secret--will recompense you.
Williams New Testament
so that your deed of charity may be secret, and your Father who sees what is secret will reward you.
World English Bible
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Worrell New Testament
that your alms may be in secret; and your Father, Who seeth in secret, will recompense you.
Worsley New Testament
that thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father, who seeth in secret, will himself reward thee openly.
Youngs Literal Translation
that thy kindness may be in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret Himself shall reward thee manifestly.
Themes
Adoption » Should produce » An avoidance of ostentation
Alms » Commandments and practices concerning
Pharisees » Hypocrisy of, reproved » By jesus
Topics
Interlinear
En
ἐν
En
Usage: 2128
Kruptos
κρυπτός
Kruptos
Usage: 8
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 6:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Sermon On The Mount: Charitable Giving
3 But when thou do charity, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand does, 4 so that thy charity may be in secret. And thy Father who sees in secret will himself reward thee in the open. 5 And when thou pray, thou shall not be as the hypocrites, because they love to pray having stood in the synagogues and in the corners of the thoroughfares, so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.
Cross References
Matthew 6:6
But thou, when thou pray, enter into thy private room, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy Father who sees in secret will reward thee in the open.
Matthew 6:18
so that thou may not appear fasting to men, but to thy Father in secret. And thy Father, who sees in secret, will reward thee.
Jeremiah 17:10
I, LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Psalm 44:21
will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Jeremiah 23:24
Can any man hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says LORD.
Hebrews 4:13
And there is no creature concealed from his presence, but all things are naked and vulnerable to his eyes, before whom is the word to us.
Revelation 2:23
And I will kill her children in death. And all the congregations will know that I am he who searches the inner feelings and hearts. And I will give to you--to each--according to your works.
1 Samuel 2:30
Therefore LORD, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me forever, but now LORD says, Be it far from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me
Psalm 17:3
Thou have proved my heart. Thou have visited me in the night. Thou have tried me, and find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
Psalm 139:1-3
O LORD, thou have searched me, and known.
Psalm 139:12
even the darkness hides not from thee, but the night shines as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee].
Matthew 10:42
And whoever may give to drink one of these little ones merely a cold cup in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you he will, no, not lose his reward.
Matthew 25:34-40
Then the King will say to those at his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Luke 8:17
For there is no secret that will not become visible, nor hid, that will not be known and come to be visible.
Luke 14:14
and thou will be blessed, because they do not have to recompense thee, for it will be recompensed to thee at the resurrection of the righteous.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.
Jude 1:24
Now to him who is able to keep them non-stumbling, and to present before his glory, unblemished in gladness,