Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VI · §4

The left hand and the right

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But when you do alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, so that your alms may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret himself shall reward you openly. Matthew 6:3. Matthew 6:4.

1771 text

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth: that thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret, himself shall reward thee openly.

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Sermon 26 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:1-15.

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