Matthew 6:32

Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:

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In The King James Version

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

In Context

31Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed?

33But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

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Cross References

Psalms 17:14With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

Matthew 5:46For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?

Matthew 20:25But Jesus said to them, You see that the rulers of the Gentiles are lords over them, and their great ones have authority over them.

Luke 12:30For the nations of the world go in search of all these things: but your Father has knowledge that you have need of them.

1 Thessalonians 4:5Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of 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 →

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