Therefore I tell you,
do not worry
about your life,
what you will eat or drink;
or about your body,
what you will wear.
Is not life more than food,
and the body more than clothes?
Look at
the birds of the air:
They do not
sow or reap
or gather into barns,
and yet
your heavenly Father
feeds them.
Are you not
much more valuable
than they?
Who of you
by worrying
can add
a single hour
to his life?
And why do you worry
about clothes?
Consider
how the lilies of the field
grow:
They do not
labor or spin.
Yet I tell you
that not even Solomon
in all his glory
was adorned
like one of these.
If that is how God clothes
the grass of the field,
which is here today
and tomorrow
is thrown into the furnace,
will He not
much more clothe you,
O you of little faith?
Therefore
do not worry,
saying,
‘What shall we eat?’
or ‘What shall we drink?’
or ‘What shall we wear?’
For the Gentiles
strive after
all these things,
and your heavenly Father
knows
that you need them.
But seek first
the kingdom of God
and His righteousness,
and all these things
will be
added unto you.