28And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
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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?
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. …
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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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