'For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

and if ye may salute your brethren only, what do ye abundant? do not also the tax-gatherers so?

and Jesus having called them near, said, 'Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them,

but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;

From men, Thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, their portion [is] in life, And [with] Thy hidden things Thou fillest their belly, They are satisfied [with] sons; And have left their abundance to their sucklings.

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him;

As a father hath mercy on sons, Jehovah hath mercy on those fearing Him.

'And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?

If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;