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

⁸ Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need^(A) before you ask him.

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

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)

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!”

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)

⁵ not in passionate lust^(A) like the pagans,^(B) who do not know God;^(C)