Matthew 6:25-30

Do Not Be Anxious

25 1"Therefore I tell you, 2do 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 3Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. 4Are you not of more value than they?
27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his 5span of life?[a]
28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,
29 yet I tell you, 6even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 But 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, 7O you of little faith?

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Cross References 7

  • 1. For ver. 25-33, see Luke 12:22-31
  • 2. ver. 27, 28, 31, 34; Matthew 10:19; Matthew 13:22(Gk.); 1 Corinthians 7:32(Gk.); Philippians 4:6; 1 Peter 5:7
  • 3. [Job 38:41; Psalms 147:9]
  • 4. Matthew 10:31
  • 5. Luke 2:52
  • 6. 1 Kings 10:4-7
  • 7. Matthew 8:26; Matthew 14:31; Matthew 16:8; [Matthew 17:20]

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or a single cubit to his stature; a cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
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