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Matthew 6:25-34
25Therefore, I tell you, don`t be anxious for your life, what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will put on. Isn`t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26See the birds of the sky, that they don`t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren`t you of much more value than they?
27Which of you, by being anxious, can add one cubit to the measure of his life?
28Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don`t toil, neither do they spin,
29yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, won`t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
31Therefore don`t be anxious, saying, `What will we eat?`, `What will we drink?` or, `With what will we be clothed?`
32For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33But seek first God`s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be added to you.
34Therefore don`t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day`s own evil is sufficient.
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