Matthew 6:25-33

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Do Not Be Anxious

²⁵^(A)“Therefore I tell you, ^(B)do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? ²⁶^(C)Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. ^(D)Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his ^(E)span of life?^[a] ²⁸And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, ²⁹yet I tell you, ^(F)even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, ^(G)O you of little faith? ³¹Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³²For ^(H)the Gentiles seek after all these things, and ^(I)your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. ³³But ^(J)seek first ^(K)the kingdom of God and his righteousness, ^(L)and all these things will be added to you.

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Matthew 6:27 Or a single cubit to his stature; a cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

Matthew 25:14-23

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The Parable of the Talents

¹⁴^(A)“For ^(B)it will be like a man ^(C)going on a journey, who called his servants^[a] and entrusted to them his property. ¹⁵To one he gave five ^(D)talents,^[b] to another two, to another one, ^(E)to each according to his ability. Then he ^(F)went away. ¹⁶He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. ¹⁷So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. ¹⁸But he who had received the one talent went and ^(G)dug in the ground and hid his master's money. ¹⁹Now ^(H)after a long time the master of those servants came and ^(I)settled accounts with them. ²⁰And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ ²¹His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and ^(J)faithful servant.^[c] ^(K)You have been faithful over a little; ^(L)I will set you over much. Enter into ^(M)the joy of your master.’ ²²And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ ²³His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

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Footnotes

Matthew 25:14 Or bondservants; also verse 19
Matthew 25:15 A talent was a monetary unit worth about twenty years' wages for a laborer
Matthew 25:21 Or bondservant; also verses 23, 26, 30