1 TAKE CARE not to do your good deeds publicly or before men, in order to be seen by them; otherwise you will have no reward [ 1 reserved for and awaiting you] with and from your Father Who is in heaven.
2 Thus, whenever you give to the poor, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites in the synagogues and in the streets like to do, that they may be 2 recognized and honored and praised by men. Truly I tell you, they have their reward 3 in full already. 3 But when you give to charity, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 So that your deeds of charity may be in secret; and your Father Who sees in secret will reward you openly.