25 (A)[a]Therefore I say unto you, be not careful for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth than meat? and the body than raiment?

26 Behold the fowls of the [b]heaven: for they sow not, neither reap, nor carry into the barns, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

27 Which of you by [c]taking care is able to add one cubit unto his stature?

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 6:25 The froward carking carefulness for things of this life is corrected in the children of God by an earnest thinking upon the providence of God.
  2. Matthew 6:26 Of the air, or that live in the air: for in all tongues almost this word Heaven is taken for the air.
  3. Matthew 6:27 He speaketh of care which is joined with thought of mind, and hath for the most part difficult yoke with it.

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