Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds —they don't sow or reap or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you worth more than they are?
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In Context
27Who of you by worrying can add a minute to your life?
Cross References
Genesis 6:21Take all kinds of food with you too. Store it so you and the animals will have enough to eat.”
Job 38:41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God, weak from starvation?”
Psalms 104:27All creatures look to you to give them food at the right time.
Psalms 147:9He gives food to the animals, and to the baby ravens when they call.
Matthew 7:9Would any of you give your son a stone if he asked for bread?
Luke 12:6Aren't five sparrows sold for two pennies? But God doesn't forget a single one of them.
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 →