Matthew 6:32

For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

In Context

31Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘What will we wear?’

33But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:46For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Matthew 20:25So Jesus called them over and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them.

Luke 12:30For the nations of the world seek after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

1 Thessalonians 4:5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know 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 →

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