Matthew 6:32
For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that ye need all these things.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
31Be not therefore anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we wear?
Cross References
Psalms 17:14from men by thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in [this] life, and whose belly thou fill with thy treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Matthew 5:46For if ye love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the tax collectors the same?
Matthew 20:25But having summoned them, Jesus said, Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord over them, and their eminent men have power over them.
Luke 12:30For the nations of the world seek all these things, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things.
1 Thessalonians 4:5not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,
Matthew Henry on Matthew 6:26-34
The Sermon on the Mount. 25 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? 26 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? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider… Read the whole commentary →