But whenever you pray, enter into your inner room and shut your door [and] pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

And [when] evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last up to the first.'

Therefore if they say to you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' do not go out, [or] 'Behold, he is in the inner rooms,' do not believe [it]!

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others.

Therefore everything that you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what {you have whispered} in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

So the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.'

And they threw him out of the vineyard [and] killed [him]. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Having received such an order, {he} put them in the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,

Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner [person] is being renewed day after day.

that he may grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,