26Behold 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?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. …
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? …
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-34)There is scarcely any one sin against which our Lord Jesus more largely and earnestly warns his disciples, or against which he arms them with more variety of arguments, than the sin of disquieting, distracting, distrustful cares about the things of life, which are a bad sign that both the treasure and the heart are on the earth ; and therefore he thus largely insists upon it. Here is, I. The prohi…
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