Luke 12:30
For all these things the nations of the world seek after; but your Father knows that you have need of these things.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
29And seek not what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, and be not in anxious suspense.
31But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be given you in addition.
Cross References
Matthew 6:1Beware of doing your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:32For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Matthew 18:14Even so, it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should be lost.
John 20:17Jesus said to her: Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.
1 Thessalonians 4:5not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;
Matthew Henry on Luke 12:23-41
Inordinate Care Reproved. 22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? 25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26 If ye then be not able to do that… Read the whole commentary →