Luke 12:22-28

Contemporary English Version

Worry

(Matthew 6.25-34)

²² Jesus said to his disciples:

I tell you not to worry about your life! Don't worry about having something to eat or wear. ²³ Life is more than food or clothing. ²⁴ Look at the crows! They don't plant or harvest, and they don't have storehouses or barns. But God takes care of them. You are much more important than any birds. ²⁵ Can worry make you live longer?^{[a] 26} If you don't have power over small things, why worry about everything else?

^27 (A) Look how the wild flowers grow! They don't work hard to make their clothes. But I tell you Solomon with all his wealth^[b] wasn't as well clothed as one of these flowers. ²⁸ God gives such beauty to everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown into a fire tomorrow. Won't he do even more for you? You have such little faith!