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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們不要求吃甚麼，喝甚麼，也不要憂慮，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 不 要 求 吃 甚 麽 ， 喝 甚 麽 ， 也 不 要 ? 心 ；

Contextual Overview

²² Jesus said to his followers, "So I tell you, don't worry about the food you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body. ²³ Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes. ²⁴ Look at the birds. They don't plant or harvest, they don't have storerooms or barns, but God feeds them. And you are worth much more than birds. ²⁵ You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it. ²⁶ If you cannot do even the little things, then why worry about the big things? ²⁷ Consider how the lilies grow; they don't work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that even Solomon with his riches was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers. ²⁸ God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today but tomorrow is thrown into the fire. So how much more will God clothe you? Don't have so little faith! ²⁹ Don't always think about what you will eat or what you will drink, and don't keep worrying. ³⁰ All the people in the world are trying to get these things, and your Father knows you need them. ³¹ But seek God's kingdom, and all your other needs will be met as well.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

seek: Luke 12:22, Luke 10:7, Luke 10:8, Luke 22:35, Matthew 6:31

neither: etc. or, live not in careful suspense

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:20 - General Deuteronomy 8:3 - doth Psalms 37:5 - Commit Psalms 39:6 - surely Ecclesiastes 2:22 - and of the Isaiah 33:16 - bread Matthew 6:25 - Take Matthew 13:22 - the care Matthew 15:32 - and have Mark 4:19 - the cares Luke 10:40 - cumbered Luke 12:17 - What Luke 12:26 - why John 21:9 - they saw Acts 11:29 - to send 1 Corinthians 7:21 - care Philippians 4:6 - careful

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And seek not what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink,.... That is, in an anxious and distressing manner, with a tormenting and vexatious care; otherwise food is to be both asked of God every day, and to be sought for and after in the use of proper means:

neither be ye of doubtful minds; questioning and distrusting that ye shall have any thing to eat or drink: be not fickle, unstable, and inconstant, and wandering in your thoughts about these things, like the meteors in the air, which are carried about here and there; let not your minds be disturbed and distracted about them; or be anxiously solicitous for them; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 6:25-33.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. Neither be ye of doubtful mind. — Or, in anxious suspense, μη μετεωριζεσθε. Raphelius gives several examples to prove that the meaning of the word is, to have the mind agitated with useless thoughts, and vain imaginations concerning food, raiment, and riches, accompanied with perpetual uncertainty.