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.

Do Not Worry(A)

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry(B) about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.(C) Are you not much more valuable than they?(D) 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?(E)

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Footnotes

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