For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things.
For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
“Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
“Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so?
Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ”
“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.
“And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind.
But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you.