Matthew 6:26 - Easy To Read Version

²⁶ Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or save food in barns. But your heavenly Father feeds those birds. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?

Common English Bible

²⁶ Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Consider the birds of the air, how they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much greater value than they are?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?

Matthew 6:26 Cross References

Genesis 6:21

Also bring every kind of food on earth into the boat. The food will be for you and for the animals.”

Job 35:11

God makes us wiser\par than the birds and animals.\par \{So where is he?\}’\par

Job 38:41

Who feeds the ravens\par when their babies yell out to God\par

Psalm 147:9

God gives food to the animals.\par God feeds the young birds.\par

Psalm 50:11

I know every bird on the highest mountain.\par Every moving thing in the hills are mine.\par

Matthew 6:32

All the people that don’t know God try to get these things. Don’t worry, because your Father in heaven knows that you need these things.

Matthew 7:9

“Do any of you have a son? If your son asked for bread, would you give him a rock? No!

Luke 12:18

Then the rich man said, ‘I know what I will do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger barns! I will put all my wheat and good things together in my new barns.