For the nations of the world seek all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks through you.
So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
And if you greet your brothers only, what are you doing more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so?
“Be sure that you do not do your righteous deeds before men to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what things you have need of before you ask Him.
And do not seek what you will eat or what you will drink, nor be of an anxious mind.
But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be given to you.
“Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Jesus said to her, “Stop holding on to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father. But go to My brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, to My God and your God.’ ”
Therefore this I say and testify in the Lord, that from now on you walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,
not in lustful passion, even as the Gentiles who do not know God,