Luke 12:30
for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;
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- Matt 6:8 : 8 be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him;
- Matt 6:32 : 32 for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;
- Matt 10:20 : 20 for ye are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father that is speaking in you.
- Matt 18:14 : 14 so it is not will in presence of your Father who is in the heavens, that one of these little ones may perish.
- Luke 12:32 : 32 `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;
- Eph 4:17 : 17 This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,
- 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh; 3 for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries, 4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil,
- 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,
- Matt 5:47 : 47 and if ye may salute your brethren only, what do ye abundant? do not also the tax-gatherers so?
- Matt 6:1 : 1 `Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not -- reward ye have not from your Father who `is' in the heavens;
- John 20:17 : 17 Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'
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30 `And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe -- not much more you, O ye of little faith?
31 therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?
32 for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;
33 but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.
34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day `is' the evil of it.
- Luke 12:31-344 verses87%
31 but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.
32 `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;
33 sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;
34 for where your treasure is, there also your heart will be.
- Luke 12:28-292 verses83%
28 and if the herbage in the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow into an oven is cast, God doth so clothe, how much more you -- ye of little faith?
29 `And ye -- seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense,
- Matt 6:7-115 verses82%
7 `And -- praying -- ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,
8 be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him;
9 thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who `art' in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.
10 `Thy reign come: Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on the earth.
11 `Our appointed bread give us to-day.
- Matt 6:24-285 verses77%
24 `None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.
25 `Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?
26 look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?
27 `And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?
28 and about clothing why are ye anxious? consider well the lilies of the field; how do they grow? they do not labour, nor do they spin;
- Luke 12:21-244 verses76%
21 so `is' he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'
22 And he said unto his disciples, `Because of this, to you I say, Be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat; nor for the body, what ye may put on;
23 the life is more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing.
24 `Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?
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15 And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'
- Luke 11:2-32 verses72%
2 And he said to them, `When ye may pray, say ye: Our Father who art in the heavens; hallowed be Thy name: Thy reign come; Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on earth;
3 our appointed bread be giving us daily;
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11 if, therefore, ye being evil, have known good gifts to give to your children, how much more shall your Father who `is' in the heavens give good things to those asking him?
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27 work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- `even' God.'
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18 that thou mayest not appear to men fasting, but to thy Father who `is' in secret, and thy Father, who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.
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9 `Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf -- a stone will he present to him?
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9 and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
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26 If, then, ye are not able for the least -- why for the rest are ye anxious?
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4 that thy kindness may be in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret Himself shall reward thee manifestly.
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9 `Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your girdles,
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11 `And of which of you -- the father -- if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?
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24 let no one seek his own -- but each another's.
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21 for where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.
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30 `And to every one who is asking of thee, be giving; and from him who is taking away thy goods, be not asking again;
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33 Take heed, watch and pray, for ye have not known when the time is;
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7 `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;
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35 And he said to them, `When I sent you without bag, and scrip, and sandals, did ye lack anything?' and they said, `Nothing.'
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8 but having food and raiment -- with these we shall suffice ourselves;
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12 that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.
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29 `Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father;
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8 Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,