o masters: for he will either hate the one, and
love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (25)For this cause I tell you, Be not
anxious about your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor
for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life of more value than
meat, and the body than raiment? (26)Look on the birds of the air: for
they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly
Father feedeth them. Are you not of more value than they? (27)But which
of you, by his cares, can add one cubit to his stature? (28)And why are
ye anxious about clothing? Contemplate the lilies of the field, how
they grow; they toil not, nor spin: (29)yet I tell you, Not even
Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. (30)If God then
so clothe a vegetable of the field, which to-day is, _in beauty_, and
tomorrow is cast into the furnace, shall he not much more clothe you, O
ye of little faith? (31)Wherefore be under no anxiety, saying, What
shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, With what shall we be
clothed? (32)(for after all these things the heathen seek:) and your
heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of them all. (33)But seek ye,
in the first place, the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all
these things shall be given you over. (34)Be not therefore anxious
about to-morrow: for tomorrow will provide for its own wants.
Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.
CHAP. VII.
JUDGE not, that ye be not judged. (2)For with the same judgment ye
judge others, shall ye be judged: and with the measure ye mete, shall
it be measured to you again. (3)And why spiest thou out the mote which
is in thy brother's eye, yet payest no attention to the beam which is
in thine own eye? (4)Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer me to
take the mote off from thine eye: and behold there is a beam in thine
own eye? (5)Thou hypocrite, take first the beam out of thine own eye
and then shalt thou see clearly to take off the mote from thy brother's
eye.
(6)Give not that which is holy to dogs, nor cast pearls before swine;
lest they tread them under foot, and turning round tear you.
(7)Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and
it shall be opened unto you: (8)for every one that asketh receiveth;
and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be
opened. (9)What man is there of you, of whom if his son ask a
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