Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
Cross References
Genesis 6:21You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals.”
Job 38:41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
Psalms 104:27All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season.
Psalms 147:9He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
Matthew 7:9Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
Luke 12:6Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by 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 →