Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Matthew 6

Do Not Worry
v.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?
v.26: 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?
v.27: Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
v.28: "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.
v.29: Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.
v.30: If 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?
v.31: So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'
v.32: For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
v.33: But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
v.34: Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

v.25: 所以我告訴你們, 不要為生命憂慮吃甚麼, 喝甚麼; 為身體憂慮穿甚麼. 生命不勝於飲食麼? 身體不勝於衣裳麼?
v.26: 你們看那天上的飛鳥, 也不種, 也不收, 也不積蓄在倉裡, 你們的天父尚且養活他. 你們不比飛鳥貴重得多麼?
v.27: 你們那一個能用思慮使壽數多加一刻呢?
v.28: 何必為衣裳憂慮呢? 你想野地裡的百合花怎麼長起來; 他也不勞苦, 也不紡線.
v.29: 然而我告訴你們, 就是所羅門極榮華的時候, 他所穿戴的, 還不如這花一朵呢!
v.30: 你們這小信的人哪! 野地裡的草今天還在, 明天就丟在爐裡, 神還給他這樣的妝飾, 何況你們呢!
v.31: 所以, 不要憂慮說: 吃甚麼? 喝甚麼? 穿甚麼?
v.32: 這都是外邦人所求的, 你們需用的這一切東西, 你們的天父是知道的.
v.33: 你們要先求他的國和他的義, 這些東西都要加給你們了.
v.34: 所以, 不要為明天憂慮, 因為明天自有明天的憂慮; 一天的難處一天當就夠了.

Especially comforted by verse 27.

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