²²And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you: Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on.

²³The life is more than the meat: and the body is more than the raiment.

²⁴Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they?

²⁵And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

²⁶If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?

²⁷Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these.

²⁸Now, if God clothe in this manner the grass that is to-day in the field and to-morrow is cast into the oven: how much more you, O ye of little faith?

²⁹And seek not what you shall eat or what you shall drink: and be not lifted up on high.

³⁰For all these things do the nations of the world seek. But your Father knoweth that you have need of these things.

³¹But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice: and all these things shall be added unto you.

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