32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
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Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? …
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
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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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