²⁵“Therefore I tell you:^k Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?^l ²⁶Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?^m ²⁷Can any of you add one moment to his life span^A by worrying? ²⁸And why do you worry about clothes? Observe how the wildflowers of the field grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. ²⁹Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these. ³⁰If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t he do much more for you—you of little faith?ⁿ ³¹So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ ³²For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But seek first the kingdom of God^B^o and his righteousness,^p and all these things will be provided for you.^q

Read in Logos

Matthew 6:26: Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Footnotes

AOr add a single cubit to his height
BOther omit of God

Cross references

k Lk 12:22–31
l Lk 10:41; Php 4:6; 1Pt 5:7
m Jb 38:41; Ps 147:9; Mt 10:29–31
n 1Kg 10:4–7; Mt 8:26; 14:31; 16:8
o Mk 1:15; Ac 20:25
p Mt 27:19; Lk 7:29; 23:41,47; Jn 5:30; 17:25; Ac 3:14
q 1Kg 3:13; Mt 19:28; Mk 10:29; Lk 18:29; 1Tm 4:8