Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
Also take with you every kind of food that is eaten, and store it up, and it shall serve as food for you and for them.”
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God and wander about for lack of food?
He gives to the animals their food and to the young ravens when they cry.
I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
For it is the gentiles who seek all these things, and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
Is there anyone among you who, if your child asked for bread, would give a stone?
Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.