²⁵“This is why I tell you: ^pDon’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? ^q²⁶Look at 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? ^r²⁷Can any of you add a single ^•cubit to his height ^sby worrying? ²⁸And why do you worry about clothes? Learn 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? ^t³¹So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ ³²For the idolaters ^ueagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³But seek first the kingdom of God ^v^wand His righteousness, ^xand all these things will be provided for you. ^y

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

•An OT measurement of distance that equaled about 18 inches
s6:27 Or add one moment to his life-span
u6:32 Or Gentiles, or nations, or heathen, or pagans
v6:33 Other omit of God

Cross references

p6:25–33 Lk 12:22–31
q6:25 Lk 10:41; Php 4:6; 1Pt 5:7
r6:26 Jb 38:41; Ps 147:9; Mt 10:29–31
t6:29–30 1Kg 10:4–7; Mt 8:26; 14:31; 16:8
w6:33 Mk 1:15; Ac 20:25
x6:33 Mt 27:19; Lk 7:29; 23:41, 47; Jn 5:30; 17:25; Ac 3:14
y6:33 1Kg 3:13; Mt 19:28; Mk 10:29; Lk 18:29; 1Tm 4:8