Matthew 6:32

For the Gentiles seek all these things. Yet your Father knows that you need 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

31Therefore, do not choose to be anxious, saying: ‘What shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and with what shall we be clothed?’

33Therefore, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well.

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Cross References

Psalms 17:14And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.

Matthew 5:46For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Do not even tax collectors behave this way?

Matthew 20:25But Jesus called them to himself and said: “You know that the first ones among the Gentiles are their rulers, and that those who are greater exercise power among them.

Luke 12:30For all these things are sought by the Gentiles of the world. And your Father knows that you have need of these things.

1 Thessalonians 4:5not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know 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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