Matthew 6:32

for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

Young's Literal Translation

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 ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?

33but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

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Cross References

Psalms 17:14From men, Thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, their portion [is] in life, And [with] Thy hidden things Thou fillest their belly, They are satisfied [with] sons; And have left their abundance to their sucklings.

Matthew 5:46'For, if ye may love those loving you, what reward have ye? do not also the tax-gatherers the same?

Matthew 20:25and Jesus having called them near, said, 'Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them,

Luke 12:30for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;

1 Thessalonians 4:5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing 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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