Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VI · §8 · John Wesley

Your Father knows

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Do not therefore be like them. For your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him. Matthew 6:8.

1771 text

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before you ask him.

About this text

The sixth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 6:1-15: giving and praying in secret, the Lord's Prayer, and a pure intention in all we do.

EditionPrinted in Wesley's 1771 Works, which do not say when he preached it

Wesley's own sermon in updated English wording. The 1771 panel is the text of the Works Wesley himself had printed in 1771. It is public domain.

Reference

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

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