Matthew 6:24-34
Jesus said to his disciples:
“No one can serve two masters.
He will either hate one and love the other,
or be devoted to
one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and mammon.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you will eat
or drink,
or about your body,
what you will wear.
Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Look at the birds in the sky;
they do not sow or
reap, they gather nothing into barns,
yet your heavenly
Father feeds them.
Are not you more important than they?
Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your
life-span?
Why are you anxious about clothes?
Learn from the way the wild flowers grow.
They do not work or spin.
But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor
was clothed like
one of them.
If God so clothes the grass of the field,
which grows today
and is thrown into the oven tomorrow,
will he not much
more provide for you, O you of little faith?
So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’
or ‘What are we to
drink?’ or ‘What are we to wear?’
All these things the pagans seek.
Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness,
and all these
things will be given you besides.
Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of
itself.
Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”
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