Matthew 6:26-30

Contemporary English Version

²⁶Look at the birds in the sky! They don't plant or harvest. They don't even store grain in barns. Yet your Father in heaven takes care of them. Aren't you worth much more than birds?

²⁷Can worry make you live longer?^[a] ²⁸Why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow. They don't work hard to make their clothes. ²⁹^(A) But I tell you that Solomon with all his wealth^[b] wasn't as well clothed as one of them. ³⁰God gives such beauty to everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown into a fire tomorrow. God will surely do even more for you! Why do you have such little faith?

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Footnotes

6.27 live longer: Or “grow taller.”
6.29 Solomon with all his wealth: The Jewish people thought that Solomon was the richest person who had ever lived.