Matthew 6:26
Good News Translation
Look at the birds: they do not plant seeds, gather a harvest and put it in barns; yet your Father in heaven takes care of them! Aren't you worth much more than birds?

New Revised Standard Version
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?

Contemporary English Version
Look at the birds in the sky! They don't plant or harvest. They don't even store grain in barns. Yet your Father in heaven takes care of them. Aren't you worth much more than birds?

New American Bible
Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they?

Douay-Rheims Bible
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?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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?

the fowls.

Matthew 10:29-31 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father. . . .

Genesis 1:29-31 And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat: . . .

Job 35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.

Job 38:41 Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?

Psalm 104:11,12,27,28 All the beasts of the field shall drink: the wild asses shall expect in their thirst. . . .

Psalm 145:15,16 The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat in due season. . . .

Psalm 147:9 Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

Luke 12:6,7,24 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? . . .

*etc:

your.

Matthew 6:32 For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things.

Matthew 7:9 Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone?

Luke 12:32 To Levites......

6,750

Beeves.

72,000
To soldiers.....

36,000

Context
Do Not Worry
25Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment? 26Behold 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? 27And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit?…
Cross References
Job 35:11
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.

Job 38:41
Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?

Psalm 50:11
I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field.

Psalm 104:27
All expect of thee that thou give them food in season.

Psalm 104:28
What thou givest to them they shall gather up: when thou openest thy hand, they shall all be filled with good.

Psalm 147:9
Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

Matthew 10:29
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and not one of them shall fall on the ground without your Father.

Luke 12:18
And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and will build greater: and into them will I gather all things that are grown to me and my goods.

Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they?

Matthew 6:25
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