See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?
Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them.*
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food?
He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.