³¹ Fear not, therefore; ^(A)you are of more value than many sparrows.

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

¹¹ He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, ^(A)if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? ^12 (B)Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So ^(C)it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

^26 (A)Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. ^(B)Are you not of more value than they?

⁹ For it is written in the Law of Moses, ^(A)“You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned? ¹⁰ Does he not certainly speak for our sake? It was written ^(B)for our sake, because ^(C)the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop.