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?
Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and you shall collect and store it up, and it shall serve as food for you and for them.
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
Who provides for the raven its prey when its young ones cry to God and wander about for lack of food?
He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens that for which they cry.
I know and am acquainted with all the birds of the mountains, and the wild animals of the field are Mine and are with Me, in My mind.
For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.
Or what man is there of you, if his son asks him for a loaf of bread, will hand him a stone?
And he said, I will do this: I will pull down my storehouses and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain or produce and my goods.