³⁰ For ^(A)all the nations of the world seek after these things, and ^(B)your Father knows that you need them.

³² For ^(A)the Gentiles seek after all these things, and ^(B)your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

⁸ Do not be like them, ^(A)for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

The New Life

¹⁷ Now this I say and ^(A)testify in the Lord, ^(B)that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, ^(C)in the futility of their minds.

^32 (A)“Fear not, little ^(B)flock, for ^(C)it is your Father's good pleasure to give you ^(D)the kingdom.

¹⁴ So ^(A)it is not the will of my^[a] Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

^20 (A)For it is not you who speak, but ^(B)the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

^2 (A)so as to live for ^(B)the rest of the time in the flesh ^(C)no longer for human passions but ^(D)for the will of God. ³ For the time that is past ^(E)suffices ^(F)for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. ⁴ With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of ^(G)debauchery, and ^(H)they malign you;

⁵ not in ^(A)the passion of lust ^(B)like the Gentiles ^(C)who do not know God;