NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 6:4

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so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

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Verse 4. This repaying or rewarding of good works, so often mentioned here by Jesus Christ, clearly evinces that good works are meritorious, and that we may do them with a view to a reward, as David did, propter retributionem. A.

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