Visit our Bible Translation Guide for more information about the major differences between the clear, natural English of God’s Word and other translations. After all, isn’t life worth more than food? And isn’t the body worth more than clothes? Look at the birds: they do not plant seeds, gather a harvest and put it in barns yet your Father in heaven takes care of them! Aren’t you worth much more than birds? Can any of you live a bit longer by worrying about it?” “This is why I tell you: do not be worried about the food and drink you need in order to stay alive, or about clothes for your body. They don’t plant, harvest, or save food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. Life is more important than food, and the body is more important than what you put on it. Thought-for-Thought (Functional Equivalence) 25 So I tell you, don’t worry about the things you need to livewhat you will eat, drink, or wear. New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE) Are not you more important than they? Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?” Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men: Charitable deeds is actually the word righteousness. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds in the sky they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. (1) Jesus’ warning against doing good to be seen by others. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. Word-for-Word (Formal Equivalence) » SHOP FOR A BIBLE NOW « Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink or about your body, what you will wear. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?” You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns yet your heavenly Father feeds them. “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink nor about your body, what you will put on. Meaning-for-Meaning (Closest Natural Equivalence) “Can any of you add a single hour to your life by worrying?” They don’t plant, harvest, or gather the harvest into barns. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothes? Each day has enough trouble of its own.“So I tell you to stop worrying about what you will eat, drink, or wear. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you-you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink or about your body, what you will wear.
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