Matthew 6:26

Look at the wild birds – they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and yet your heavenly Father feeds them! Aren’t you more precious than they?

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In The King James Version

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?

In Context

25“This is why I say to you, Do not be anxious about your life – what you can get to eat or drink, or about your body – what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

27But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong their life a single moment?

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Cross References

Genesis 6:21Take and store food for them and you.”

Psalms 104:27They all look in hope to you, to give them their food in due season.

Psalms 147:9He gives the cattle their food the young ravens food when they cry.

Matthew 7:9Who among you, when their child asks them for bread, will give them a stone,

Luke 12:6Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? Yet not one of them has escaped God’s notice.

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 →

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