³² For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

⁸ “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father ^(A)knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.

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

The New Man

¹⁷ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should ^(A)no longer walk as ^[a]the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

^11 (A)If a son asks for ^[a]bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? ¹² Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? ¹³ If you then, being evil, know how to give ^(B)good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”