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Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. |
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[sing song] Worry, worry, worry |
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[sing song] Fret, fret, fret |
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Worry |
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Fret |
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[heavily] Sigh! |
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Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? |
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Look at the birds of the air; |
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Little birds. |
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They do not sow or reap or store away in barns, |
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and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. |
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Are you not much more valuable than they? |
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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? |
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Who can add a foot to his stature? |
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Or even a day to his span of life? |
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And why do you worry about clothes? |
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What'll I wear? |
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My clothes are getting worn out. |
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See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. |
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Toil or spin. |
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Spin or toil. |
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Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. |
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In splendor! |
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In glory! |
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If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, |
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Here today. |
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Gone tomorrow. |
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Will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? |
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So do not worry, saying, |
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'What shall we eat?' or |
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'What shall we drink?' or |
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'What shall we wear?' |
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For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. |
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But seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. |
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Seek first |
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Seek diligently |
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Before anything else in your life |
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The Kingdom of God |
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God's Reign |
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God's righteousness |
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And all these things will be given to you as well. |
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Given to you, |
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Added to you. |
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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, |
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Tomorrow |
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Tomorrow |
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For tomorrow will worry about itself. |
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Each day has enough trouble of its own. |
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