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Often appears with: sin, guilt, and repentance · prayer and worship · lord’s prayer · hypocrisy and the appearance of virtue · god and mammon · almsgiving
Usually: argument (1) · temptation (1) · exhortation (1) · indignation (1)
Further Sermon on the Mount teachings contrast almsgiving, prayer, and fasting done publicly versus secretly, includes the Lord’s Prayer, condemns hypocrisy, and warns against divided service to God and mammon.
The sixth Chapter. Take heed to your alms. That ye give it not in the sight of men, to the intent that ye would be seen of them. Or else ye get no reward of your father in heaven. Whensoever therefore thou givest thine alms, thou shalt not make a trumpet to be blown before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues, and in the streets, for to be praised of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But wh…