For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek, but your Father knows that you need these things.
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
In this way, it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish.
And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
“Beware of doing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.
For all these things the Gentiles eagerly seek; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Therefore, do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
And do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying.
But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you.
Do not fear, little flock, for your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom.
Jesus *said to her, “Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.’ ”
Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;