For all the nations of the world seek these things; and your Father knows that you need them.
for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
And if you salute only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
“Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be of anxious mind.
Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things shall be yours as well.
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Jesus said to her, “Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.”
Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;
not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God;