²⁵“For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat,^h and not for your body, what you will wear. Is your life not more than food and your body more than clothing? ²⁶Consider the birds of the sky, that they do not sow or reap or gather produce into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they are? ²⁷And who among you, by^* being anxious, is able to add one hourⁱ to his life span? ²⁸And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe the lilies of the field, how they grow: they do not toil or spin, ²⁹but I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like one of these. ³⁰But if God dresses the grass of the field in this way, although it^* is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not do so much more for you, you of little faith? ³¹Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?,’ ³²for the pagans seek after all these things. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³But seek first his kingdom and righteousness,^j and all these things will be added to you.

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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

hSome manuscripts add “or what you will drink”; other later manuscripts add “and what you will drink”
*Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“being anxious”) which is understood as means
iOr “cubit”
*Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“is”) which is understood as concessive
jSome manuscripts have “the kingdom of God and his righteousness”