Matthew 6:26

New English Translation

Look at the birds in the sky: They do not sow, or reap, or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more valuable than they are?

Cross References

Genesis 6:21

And you must take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten, and gather it together. It will be food for you and for them.

Job 35:11

who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Job 38:41

Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?

Psalm 147:9

He gives food to the animals, and to the young ravens when they chirp.

Psalm 50:11

I keep track of every bird in the hills, and the insects of the field are mine.

Matthew 6:32

For the unconverted pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

Matthew 7:9

Is there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

Luke 12:18

Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.