³⁰ These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers all over the world, but your Father already knows your needs.

³² These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs.

⁸ Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him!

Living as Children of Light

¹⁷ With the Lord’s authority I say this: Live no longer as the Gentiles do, for they are hopelessly confused.

³² “So don’t be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom.

¹⁴ In the same way, it is not my heavenly Father’s will that even one of these little ones should perish.

²⁰ For it is not you who will be speaking—it will be the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

² You won’t spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God. ³ You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

⁴ Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander you.

⁵ not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.

¹⁷ “Don’t cling to me,” Jesus said, “for I haven’t yet ascended to the Father. But go find my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”