Matthew 6:20-30

20 "But store up for yourselves ¹treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;

21 for ²where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

22 "³The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.

23 "But if ⁴your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

24 "⁵No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot * serve God and ⁶wealth.

The Cure for Anxiety

25 "⁷For this reason I say to you, do not be ⁸worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

26 "⁹Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

27 "And who of you by being ¹⁰worried can ¹¹add a single hour to his life?

28 "And why are you ¹²worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin,

29 yet I say to you that not even ¹³Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.

30 "But if God so clothes the ¹⁴grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? ¹⁵You of little faith!

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 19:21; Luke 12:33; 1 Timothy 6:19
• 2. Luke 12:34
• 3. Matthew 6:22, 23: {Luke 11:34, 35}
• 4. Matthew 20:15; Mark 7:22
• 5. 1 Kings 18:21; Luke 16:13; Galatians 1:10; James 4:4
• 6. Luke 16:9, 11, 13
• 7. Matthew 6:25-33: {Luke 12:22-31}
• 8. Matt 6:27, 28, 31, 34; Luke 10:41; Luke 12:11, 22; Philippians 4:6; 1 Peter 5:7
• 9. Job 35:11; Job 38:41; Psalms 104:27, 28; Matthew 10:29f; Luke 12:24
• 10. Matt 6:25, 28, 31, 34; Luke 10:41; Luke 12:11, 22; Philippians 4:6; 1 Peter 5:7
• 11. Psalms 39:5
• 12. Matt 6:25, 27, 31, 34; Luke 10:41; Luke 12:11, 22; Philippians 4:6; 1 Peter 5:7
• 13. 1 Kings 10:4-7; 2 Chr 9:4-6, 20-22
• 14. James 1:10, 11; 1 Peter 1:24
• 15. Matthew 8:26; Matthew 14:31; Matthew 16:8

Footnotes

• [a] Or "healthy;" or "sincere"
• [b] Or "evil"
• [c] Gr "mamonas," for Aram "mamon" (mammon); i.e. wealth, etc., personified as an object of worship
• [d] Or "stop being worried"
• [e] Lit "soul"
• [f] Lit "heaven"
• [g] Lit "cubit" (approx 18 in.)
• [h] Or "height"