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6:19-34 "Do not
accumulate treasure for yourself
on earth where the moth and the rust destroy it and where thieves dig
through and steal it. Lay up treasure
for yourself in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroy
and where thieves do not dig through nor steal. For where your treasure is, there will
also be your heart. The lamp of the
body is the eye. If therefore your
eye be sound the whole of your body will be in the light. But if your eye is evil, the whole of
your body will be in darkness. If
therefore the means of light within you is dark how great is the dark. Nobody can serve two lords. Either he will hate the one and love the
other. Or he will be loyal to the
one and despise the other. You
cannot serve both God and Mammon.
Therefore I tell you. Do not
be anxious about your life - what you may eat or what you may drink. Nor be anxious about your body - what
you may put on. Is
not life worth more than food and the body worth more than clothing. Look at the birds of heaven.
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They
do not sow nor reap nor gather into barns.
Yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not of more value than them?
But who amongst you on being anxious about height can add a single
cubit to this? And as regards
clothing why are you anxious?
Consider the lilies of the field and how they grow. They do not labour nor spin. But I tell you that not even Solomon in
all his glory was clothed like one of these. There is grass that may be in the field
today yet tomorrow
is thrown into the oven. Even so God still
clothes it. How much more will he
clothe you of you of little faith?
Therefore do not be anxious saying “What may we eat? or What may be
drink? or
What may we put on? Everyone looks
for these things. Your heavenly father knows that you need all these
things. Rather seek first the
kingdom and his righteousness. Then
these things will be added to you.
Therefore do not be anxious for the morrow for the morrow has its
own anxieties. Sufficient for the day is its own evil.”
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