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 Creator feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to her life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the creatures of the sea are clothed. They do not labor or spin, yet they are covered, shielded, and protected with unique and intricate colors and patterns. I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the creatures of the sea, that are here today and tomorrow washed ashore, will God 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 Creator 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.
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