Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?
And take with you of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to you; and it shall be for food for you, and for them.
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Who provides for the raven its food? when its young ones cry unto God, they wander about for lack of food.
He gives to the beast its food, and to the young ravens that cry.
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I store all my crops and my goods.