012:020 "But God said to him, "`Foolish man, this night your life
is demanded from you; and these preparations—for whom
shall they be?'
012:021 "So is it with him who amasses treasure for himself, but has no riches in God."
012:022 Then turning to His disciples He said, "For this reason I say to you, `Dismiss all anxious care for your lives, inquiring what you are to eat, and for your bodies, what you are to put on.'
012:023 For life is a greater gift than food, and the body is a greater gift than clothing.
012:024 Observe the ravens. They neither sow nor reap, and have neither store-chamber nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How far more precious are you than the birds!
012:025 And which of you is able by anxious thought to add a moment
to his life?
012:026 If then you are unable to do even a very little thing,
why be over-anxious about other matters?
012:027 Observe the lilies, how they grow. They neither labour nor spin.
And yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour
was as beautifully dressed as one of these.
012:028 But if God so clothes the vegetation in the fields, that blooms
to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, how much
more certainly will He clothe you, you men of feeble faith!
012:029 "Therefore, do not be asking what you are to eat nor what you
are to drink; and do not waver between hope and fear.