Matthew 6:23-33

23 ¹but if ²your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

24 ³"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and ⁴money.^[a]

Do Not Be Anxious

25 ⁵"Therefore I tell you, ⁶do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

26 ⁷Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. ⁸Are you not of more value than they?

27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his ⁹span of life?^[b]

28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,

29 yet I tell you, ¹⁰even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, ¹¹O you of little faith?

31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'

32 For ¹²the Gentiles seek after all these things, and ¹³your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

33 But ¹⁴seek first ¹⁵the kingdom of God and his righteousness, ¹⁶and all these things will be added to you.

Cross References

• 1. [See ver. 22 above]
• 2. Matthew 20:15; Deuteronomy 15:9; Proverbs 28:22
• 3. Luke 16:13; [Romans 6:16; James 4:4]
• 4. Luke 16:9, 11, 13
• 5. For ver. 25-33, see Luke 12:22-31
• 6. ver. 27, 28, 31, 34; Matthew 10:19; Matthew 13:22(Gk.); 1 Corinthians 7:32(Gk.); Philippians 4:6; 1 Peter 5:7
• 7. [Job 38:41; Psalms 147:9]
• 8. Matthew 10:31
• 9. Luke 2:52
• 10. 1 Kings 10:4-7
• 11. Matthew 8:26; Matthew 14:31; Matthew 16:8; [Matthew 17:20]
• 12. ver. 7
• 13. ver. 8
• 14. [Matthew 5:6, 20]
• 15. ver. 10
• 16. [1 Kings 3:11-14; Mark 10:29, 30; 1 Timothy 4:8; 1 Peter 3:9]

Footnotes

• [a]. Greek mammon, a Semitic word for money or possessions
• [b]. Or a single cubit to his stature; a cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters