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If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?
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Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
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But if God so clothes the grass which is alive in the field today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O men of little faith!
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And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be of anxious mind.
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For all the nations of the world seek these things; and your Father knows that you need them.
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Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things shall be yours as well.
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"Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
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Sell your possessions, and give alms; provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
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For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
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"Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning,
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and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks.