Matthew 6:26 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁶ Look at the birds of the heaven, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into storehouses, yet your heavenly Father does feed them. Are you not worth more than they?

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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

“As for you, take of all food that is eaten and gather it to yourself. And it shall be food for you and for them.”

Job 35:11

teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

Job 38:41

Who provides food for the raven, when its young ones cry to Ěl, and wander about without food?

Psalm 147:9

Giving to the beast its food, To the young ravens that cry.

Psalm 50:11

“I know all the birds of the mountains, And all moving in My field are Mine.

Matthew 6:32

“For all these the nations seek for. And your heavenly Father knows that you need all these.

Matthew 7:9

“Or is there a man among you who, if his son asks for bread, shall give him a stone?

Luke 12:18

And he said, ‘I am going to do this: pull down my storehouses and build greater, and store all my crops and my goods there,”