Luke 12:30
For all these things the nations of the world seek after, but your Father knows that you need these things.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
29“And do not seek what you may eat or what you may drink, and do not be anxious.
31But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you.
Cross References
Matthew 6:1“Take care not to be doing your charitable giving before men, so as to be seen by them. Otherwise, you have not a reward from your Father in heaven.
Matthew 6:32For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Matthew 18:14Thus it is not the will before your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. 1 Reproving Another Who Sins
John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ”
1 Thessalonians 4:5not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know 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 →