24 (A)[a]No man can serve [b]two masters: for either he shall hate the one, and love the other, or else he shall lean to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and [c]riches.

25 (B)[d]Therefore I say unto you, be not careful for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth than meat? and the body than raiment?

26 Behold the fowls of the [e]heaven: for they sow not, neither reap, nor carry into the barns, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:24 God will be worshipped of the whole man.
  2. Matthew 6:24 Which be at jar together, for if two agree, they are as one.
  3. Matthew 6:24 This word is a Syrian word, and signifieth all things that belong to money.
  4. Matthew 6:25 The froward carking carefulness for things of this life is corrected in the children of God by an earnest thinking upon the providence of God.
  5. Matthew 6:26 Of the air, or that live in the air: for in all tongues almost this word Heaven is taken for the air.

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