Matthew 6:19–34

Wealth

Luke 11:34–36; 12:22–34

^19t“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; ^20ubut lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

^22v “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is ⁷good, your whole body will be full of light. ²³But if your eye is ⁸bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

^24w“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. ^xYou cannot serve God and ⁹mammon.

²⁵“Therefore I say to you, ^ydo not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? ^26zLook at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷Which of you by worrying can add one ¹cubit to his ²stature?

²⁸“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; ²⁹and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not ³arrayed like one of these. ³⁰Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

³¹“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³²For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³But ^aseek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. ³⁴Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.