Matthew 6:32

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

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

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?’

33But first seek his Kingdom and the righteousness that he requires, and then all these things shall be added for you.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:46For, if you love only those who love you, what reward will you have? Even the tax-gatherers do this!

Matthew 20:25Jesus, however, called the ten to him, and said: “The rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them as you know, and their great men oppress them.

Luke 12:30These are the things for which all the nations of the world are seeking, and your Father knows that you need them.

1 Thessalonians 4:5and not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of 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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