⁵ When they reached the district of Zuph,^(A) Saul said to the servant who was with him, “Come, let’s go back, or my father will stop thinking about the donkeys and start worrying^(B) about us.”

² When you leave me today, you will meet two men near Rachel’s tomb,^(A) at Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys^(B) you set out to look for have been found. And now your father has stopped thinking about them and is worried^(C) about you. He is asking, “What shall I do about my son?”’

The Birth of Samuel

1 There was a certain man from Ramathaim,^(A) a Zuphite^[a](B) from the hill country^(C) of Ephraim,^(D) whose name was Elkanah^(E) son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

¹¹ “When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say,^(A)

Do Not Worry^(A)

²² Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.

²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.

Do Not Worry^(A)

²⁵ “Therefore I tell you, do not worry^(B) about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.