Matthew 6:26
Consider the birds of the air, how they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much greater value than they are?
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27And which of you, by thinking, is able to add one cubit to his stature?
Cross References
Genesis 6:21Therefore, you shall take with you from all the foods that are able to be eaten, and you shall carry these with you. And these shall be used as food, some for you, and the rest for them.”
Job 38:41Who provides the raven with its meal, when her chicks cry out to God, as they wander around because they have no food?
Psalms 104:27He placed with them signs of his word, and portents in the land of Ham.
Psalms 147:9He has not done so much for every nation, and he has not made his judgments manifest to them. Alleluia.
Matthew 7:9Or what man is there among you, who, if his son were to ask him for bread, would offer him a stone;
Luke 12:6Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins? And yet not one of these is forgotten in the sight 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 →