Matthew 6:26

World English Bible (2000)

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?

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  • Ps 147:9 : 9 He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
  • Job 38:41 : 41 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
  • Luke 12:24-32 : 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! 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.
  • Matt 7:9 : 9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
  • Matt 10:29-31 : 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.
  • Ps 104:27-28 : 27 These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. 28 You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.
  • 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.
  • 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 12:6-7 : 6 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God. 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 104:11-12 : 11 They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst. 12 The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.
  • Gen 1:29-31 : 29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. 30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;" and it was so. 31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
  • Matt 6:32 : 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

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  • Luke 12:22-33
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    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.

    23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

    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!

    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.

  • Matt 6:24-25
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    24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

    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?

  • Matt 6:27-34
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    82%

    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.

  • Matt 10:28-31
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    28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

    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.

  • Luke 12:6-7
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    6 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

    7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

  • Matt 6:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

    9 Pray like this: 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

  • Matt 6:19-21
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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;

    20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;

    21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

  • John 6:27
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    27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."

  • Deut 28:26
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    26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

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  • Prov 6:8
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    8 provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

  • Luke 6:36
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    36 Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

  • Ps 147:9
    69%

    9 He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.

  • Matt 7:6
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    6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • Matt 8:20
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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."

  • Job 12:7
    69%

    7 "But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

  • Matt 13:4
    69%

    4 As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

  • Job 38:41
    68%

    41 Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?

  • Prov 23:5
    68%

    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.

  • Luke 9:58
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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."

  • Matt 7:11
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    11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

  • Luke 12:16
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    16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

  • Mark 6:36
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    36 Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat."

  • Luke 8:5
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    5 "The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.