Matthew 6:32
For the nations seek for all these, for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these;
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In Context
33but seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these will be added to you.
Cross References
Psalms 17:14From men, Your hand, O YHWH, || From men of the world, their portion [is] in life, || And [with] Your hidden things You fill their belly, || They are satisfied [with] sons, || And have left their abundance to their sucklings.
Matthew 5:46For if you may love those loving you, what reward do you have? Do the tax collectors not also do the same?
Matthew 20:25and Jesus having called them near, said, “You have known that the rulers of the nations exercise lordship over them, and those [who are] great exercise authority over them,
Luke 12:30for the nations of the world seek after all these things, and your Father has known that you have need of these things;
1 Thessalonians 4:5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing 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 →