Matthew 6:31

Do not then ask anxiously ‘What can we get to eat?’ or ‘What can we get to drink?’ or ‘What can we get to wear?’

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In The King James Version

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

In Context

30If God so clothes even the grass of the field, which is living today and tomorrow will be thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

32All these are the things for which the nations are seeking, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

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Cross References

Psalms 37:3Trust in the Lord, and do good; remain in the land, and deal faithfully:

Psalms 78:18They willfully challenged God, demanding the food that they longed for.

Matthew 15:33“Where can we,” his disciples asked, “in a lonely place find enough bread for such a crowd as this?”

1 Peter 5:7laying all your anxieties on him, for he makes you his care.

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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