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Do Not Worry

Matthew 6:25–34

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25

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body than clothes?

26

Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Look at the wild birds. They do not sow or reap, or store their food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more account than they?

27

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

But which of you with all his worry can add a single hour to his life?

28

And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.

Why should you worry about clothing? See how the wild flowers grow. They do not toil or spin,

29

Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.

and yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was never dressed like one of them.

30

If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

But if God so beautifully dresses the wild grass, which is alive today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more surely clothe you, you who have so little faith?

31

Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

So do not worry and say, ‘What shall we have to eat?’ or ‘What shall we have to drink?’ or ‘What shall we have to wear?’

32

For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

For these are all things the heathen are in pursuit of, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need all this.

33

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.

34

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.

So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries of its own. Let each day be content with its own ills.

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