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Matthew 6:32

God's faithfulnessWorry and anxiety

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

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BSB
For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
KJV
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
WEB
For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
ASV
For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
DARBY
for all these things the nations seek after; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.
BLB
For the nations seek after all these things. For your⁺ heavenly Father knows that you⁺ have need of all of these.
ÅB
For alt slikt søker hedningene etter, og den himmelske Faren deres vet at dere trenger alt dette.
OTB
For hedningene søker ivrig etter alle disse tingene, og deres himmelske Far vet at dere trenger dem.
B1930
For alt slikt søker hedningene efter, og eders himmelske Fader vet at I trenger til alt dette.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Matthew 6:8

    Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

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  • Luke 12:30

    For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

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  • Ephesians 4:17

    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

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  • Luke 11:11–13

    If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

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  • Psalms 17:14

    From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

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  • Matthew 20:25–26

    But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.

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  • 1 Thessalonians 4:5

    Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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  • Psalms 103:13

    Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

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