Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
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- Job 38:41 : 41 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
- Ps 147:9 : 9 He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
- Matt 10:31 : 31 Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
- Luke 12:7 : 7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
- Ps 145:15-16 : 15 The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season. 16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
- 1 Kgs 17:1-6 : 1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." 2 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying, 3 "Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. 4 It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." 5 So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. 6 The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
- Job 35:11 : 11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
- Luke 12:30-32 : 30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things. 31 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you. 32 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
- Mark 6:26 : 26 The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.
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- Matt 6:25-3410 verses87%
25 Therefore, 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 wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26 See 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?
27 "Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
28 Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,
29 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
31 "Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'
32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
34 Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.
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21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
22 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
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25 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
26 If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
27 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?
29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
31 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
32 Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
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41 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
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9 He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
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6 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.
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29 "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,
30 but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
31 Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
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4 It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."
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6 The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
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15 any kind of raven,
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11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
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14 and every raven after its kind,
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12 The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.
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17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'
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5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
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23 Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:
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20 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
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8 provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
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19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
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58 Jesus said to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."
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4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.
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27 These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.
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13 "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?