Matthew 6:28
And why be anxious about clothing? Study the wild lilies, and how they grow. They neither toil nor spin;
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
27But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong his life a single moment?
29yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his splendour was not robed like one of these.
Cross References
Matthew 6:31Do not then ask anxiously ‘What can we get to eat?’ or ‘What can we get to drink?’ or ‘What can we get to wear?’
Luke 3:11“Let the man who has two coats,” answered John, “share with him who has none; and the man who has food do the same.”
Luke 22:35Then he said to them all: “When I sent you out as my Messengers, without either purse, or bag, or sandals, were you in need of anything?” “No; nothing,” they answered.
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 →