²⁴ Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!^(A)

²⁷ Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,^[a] yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.^{(A) 28} But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you of little faith!