Matthew 6:28
And about raiment, why are ye anxious? Consider the lilies of the desert, in what manner they grow. They toil not; and they spin not.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
27And who of you that shall be anxious, can add to his stature a cubit?
29Yet I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory, was arrayed like one of them.
Cross References
Matthew 6:31Therefore be not anxious; nor say, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink; or wherewith be clothed?
Luke 3:11He answered and said to them: Whoever hath two tunics, let him give one to him that hath none; and whoever hath food, let him do the same.
Luke 22:35And he said to them: When I sent you without purses, without wallets and shoes, lacked ye any thing? They say to him: Nothing.
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 →