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"For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is life not more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

"Look at the birds of the sky, that they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather crops into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more important than they?

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

"And which of you by worrying can add a single day to his life's span?

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

"And why are you worried about clothing? Notice how the lilies of the field grow; they do not labor nor do they spin thread for cloth,

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.

And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

"But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

"Do not worry then, saying, 'What are we to eat?' or 'What are we to drink?' or 'What are we to wear for clothing?'

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

"For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided to you.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

"So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.