Luke 12:30
For all these things do the nations of the world seek. But your Father knoweth that you have need of these things.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
29And seek not you what you shall eat, or what you shall drink: and be not lifted up on high.
31But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Cross References
Matthew 6:1Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 6:32For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things.
Matthew 18:14Even so it is not the will of your Father, who is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
John 20:17Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me, for I am not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren, and say to them: I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and your God.
1 Thessalonians 4:5Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:
Matthew Henry on Luke 12:23-41
Inordinate Care Reproved. 22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? 25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26 If ye then be not able to do that… Read the whole commentary →