Matthew 6:28
And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they toil not, nor do they spin.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
27Which of you, by his anxiety, can add one span to his life?
29But I say to you, That Solomon, in all his glory, was not clothed like one of these.
Cross References
Matthew 6:31Therefore, be not anxious, saying: What shall we eat? or, what shall we drink? or, with what shall we be clothed?
Luke 3:11He answered and said to them: He that has two coats, let him give to him that has none; and he that has food, let him do likewise.
Luke 22:35And he said to them: When I sent you without purse and bag and sandals, did you need any thing? They replied: Nothing.
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 →