Therefore I tell you, do not worry
about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body,
what you will wear.
Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than
clothes?
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.
Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can
add a
single hour to his
life? Why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field
grow. They
do not labor or
spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was
dressed like one
of these. If that is
how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and
tomorrow is
thrown into the
fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do
not worry,
saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What
shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run
after all these things,
and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his
kingdom
and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as
well. Therefore do not
worry about
tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough
trouble of its own.