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Scott's Reference Library
Matthew 6:25 through Matthew 6:33 (NIV)
25“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or
drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than
food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look 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? 27Who of you by worrying
can add a single hour to his life?
28“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow.
They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his
splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass
of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he
not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying,
‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32For
the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you
need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these
things will be given to you as well.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 25-34
There is scarcely any sin against which our Lord Jesus more warns his disciples,
than disquieting, distracting, distrustful cares about the things of this life.
This often insnares the poor as much as the love of wealth does the rich. But
there is a carefulness about temporal things which is a duty, though we must not
carry these lawful cares too far. Take no thought for your life. Not about the
length of it; but refer it to God to lengthen or shorten it as he pleases; our
times are in his hand, and they are in a good hand. Not about the comforts of
this life; but leave it to God to make it bitter or sweet as he pleases. Food
and raiment God has promised, therefore we may expect them. Take no thought for
the morrow, for the time to come. Be not anxious for the future, how you shall
live next year, or when you are old, or what you shall leave behind you. As we
must not boast of tomorrow, so we must not care for to-morrow, or the events of
it. God has given us life, and has given us the body. And what can he not do for
us, who did that? If we take care about our souls and for eternity, which are
more than the body and its life, we may leave it to God to provide for us food
and raiment, which are less. Improve this as an encouragement to trust in God.
We must reconcile ourselves to our worldly estate, as we do to our stature. We
cannot alter the disposals of Providence, therefore we must submit and resign
ourselves to them. Thoughtfulness for our souls is the best cure of
thoughtfulness for the world. Seek first the kingdom of God, and make religion
your business: say not that this is the way to starve; no, it is the way to be
well provided for, even in this world. The conclusion of the whole matter is,
that it is the will and command of the Lord Jesus, that by daily prayers we may
get strength to bear us up under our daily troubles, and to arm us against the
temptations that attend them, and then let none of these things move us. Happy
are those who take the Lord for their God, and make full proof of it by trusting
themselves wholly to his wise disposal. Let thy Spirit convince us of sin in the
want of this disposition, and take away the worldliness of our hearts.