Matthew 6:32
for all these things the nations seek after; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.
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Psalms 17:14From men [who are] thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in [this] life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their children.
Matthew 5:46For if ye should love those who love you, what reward have ye? Do not also the tax-gatherers the same?
Matthew 20:25But Jesus having called them to [him], said, Ye know that the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them, and the great exercise authority over them.
Luke 12:30for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;
1 Thessalonians 4:5(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not 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 →