You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.’
Matthew 6:26 - New International Version (Anglicised) Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they? American Standard Version (1901) Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they? Common English Bible Look at the birds in the sky. They don’t sow seed or harvest grain or gather crops into barns. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than they are? Catholic Public Domain Version Consider the birds of the air, how they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much greater value than they are? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? |
You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.’
who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?”
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
He provides food for the cattle and for the young ravens when they call.
I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine.
For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
‘Then he said, “This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain.