But you, when you[a] practice charitable giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, in order that your charitable giving may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

The Sermon on the Mount: How to Pray

And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to stand and[b] pray in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, in order that they may be seen by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full!

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:3 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“practice”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 6:5 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“stand”) has been translated as a finite verb