Matthew 6:25-34

Common English Bible

Worry about necessities

²⁵“Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you’ll eat or what you’ll drink, or about your body, what you’ll wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes? ²⁶Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are? ²⁷Who among you by worrying can add a single moment to your life? ²⁸And why do you worry about clothes? Notice how the lilies in the field grow. They don’t wear themselves out with work, and they don’t spin cloth. ²⁹But I say to you that even Solomon in all of his splendor wasn’t dressed like one of these. ³⁰If God dresses grass in the field so beautifully, even though it’s alive today and tomorrow it’s thrown into the furnace, won’t God do much more for you, you people of weak faith? ³¹Therefore, don’t worry and say, ‘What are we going to eat?’ or ‘What are we going to drink?’ or ‘What are we going to wear?’ ³²Gentiles long for all these things. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³Instead, desire first and foremost God’s kingdom and God’s righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴Therefore, stop worrying about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

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Luke 12:22-31

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Warning about worry

²²Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Therefore, I say to you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. ²³There is more to life than food and more to the body than clothing. ²⁴Consider the ravens: they neither plant nor harvest, they have no silo or barn, yet God feeds them. You are worth so much more than birds! ²⁵Who among you by worrying can add a single moment to your life?^[a] ²⁶If you can’t do such a small thing, why worry about the rest? ²⁷Notice how the lilies grow. They don’t wear themselves out with work, and they don’t spin cloth. But I say to you that even Solomon in all his splendor wasn’t dressed like one of these. ²⁸If God dresses grass in the field so beautifully, even though it’s alive today and tomorrow it’s thrown into the furnace, how much more will God do for you, you people of weak faith! ²⁹Don’t chase after what you will eat and what you will drink. Stop worrying. ³⁰All the nations of the world long for these things. Your Father knows that you need them. ³¹Instead, desire his kingdom and these things will be given to you as well.