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27 Can worry make you live longer?[a] 28 Why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow. They don't work hard to make their clothes. 29 (A) But I tell you that Solomon with all his wealth[b] wasn't as well clothed as one of them.

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  1. 6.27 live longer: Or “grow taller.”
  2. 6.29 Solomon with all his wealth: The Jewish people thought that Solomon was the richest person who had ever lived.

27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?(A)

28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor(B) was dressed like one of these.

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  1. Matthew 6:27 Or single cubit to your height