The Cure for Anxiety
25 "Therefore I tell you: 6:25–33 Lk 12:22–31Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? 6:25 Lk 10:41; Php 4:6; 1Pt 5:726 Consider the birds of the sky: They don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? 6:26 Jb 38:41; Ps 147:9; Mt 10:29–3131 So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat? ’ or ‘What will we drink? ’ or ‘What will we wear? ’ 32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.33 But seek first the kingdom of God 6:33 Other mss omit of God, 6:33 Mk 1:15; Ac 20:25and his righteousness, 6:33 Mt 27:19; Lk 7:29; 23:41,47; Jn 5:30; 17:25; Ac 3:14and all these things will be provided for you. 6:33 1Kg 3:13; Mt 19:28; Mk 10:29; Lk 18:29; 1Tm 4:834 Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble 6:34 Mt 6:25; Lk 10:41; Php 4:6; 1Pt 5:7of its own.