¹⁹“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust^a consume and where thieves break in and steal,^* ²⁰but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust^b consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.^* ²¹For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

The Eye

²²“The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,^* ²³but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If, then, the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Serving Two Masters

²⁴“No one can serve two masters, for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.^c^*

Do Not Worry

²⁵“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink,^d or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?^* ²⁶Look 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?^* ²⁷And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to your span of life?^e ²⁸And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, ²⁹yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. ³⁰But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ ³²For it is the gentiles who seek all these things, and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³But seek first the kingdom of God^f and his^g righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.^*

³⁴“So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today.

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

aGk eating
bGk eating
cGk mammon
dOther ancient authorities lack or what you will drink
eOr add one cubit to your height
fOther ancient authorities lack of God
gOr its

Cross references

*Prov 23:4; 1 Tim 6:17; Heb 13:5; Jas 5:1
*Lk 12:33, 34; 18:22; 1 Tim 6:19; 1 Pet 1:4
*Mt 20:15; Mk 7:22; Lk 11:34–36
*Lk 16:13
*Ps 55:22; Phil 4:6; 1 Pet 5:7
*Job 38:41; Ps 147:9; Lk 12:24
*Mt 19:28; Mk 10:29, 30; Lk 18:29, 30