³¹ So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.^(A)

²⁴ Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them.^(A) And how much more valuable you are than birds!

¹¹ He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?^{(A) 12} How much more valuable is a person than a sheep!^(B) Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.^(A) Are you not much more valuable than they?^(B)

⁹ For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.”^[a](A) Is it about oxen that God is concerned?^{(B) 10} Surely he says this for us, doesn’t he? Yes, this was written for us,^(C) because whoever plows and threshes should be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest.^(D)