32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.(A)

Read full chapter

32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Read full chapter

30 For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father(A) knows that you need them.(B)

Read full chapter

30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

Read full chapter

Instructions for Christian Living

17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer(A) live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.(B)

Read full chapter

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Read full chapter

11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for[a] a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:11 Some manuscripts for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for

11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?

13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Read full chapter

25 Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. 26 Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,(A)

Read full chapter

25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.

26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

Read full chapter

14 By your hand save me from such people, Lord,
    from those of this world(A) whose reward is in this life.(B)
May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;
    may their children gorge themselves on it,
    and may there be leftovers(C) for their little ones.

Read full chapter

14 From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Read full chapter

not in passionate lust(A) like the pagans,(B) who do not know God;(C)

Read full chapter

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Read full chapter

13 As a father has compassion(A) on his children,
    so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;

Read full chapter

13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

Read full chapter

46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get?(A) Are not even the tax collectors doing that? 47 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?

Read full chapter

46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

Read full chapter