24. Consider the ravens: They neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouses nor barns. Yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds?
25. Who of you by worrying can add one cubit to his height?
26. If you then cannot do what is least, why are you anxious about the other things?
27. “Consider how the lilies grow. They neither spin nor weave. Yet I say to you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28. If God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?
29. And do not seek what you will eat or what you will drink, nor be of an anxious mind.
30. For the nations of the world seek all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
31. But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be given to you.
32. “Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
33. Sell your possessions and give alms. Provide yourselves purses that do not grow old, an unfailing treasure in the heavens, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
34. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35. “Let your waist be girded and your lights be burning,
36. and you be like men waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door immediately for him when he comes and knocks.
37. Blessed are those servants whom the master will find watching when he comes. Truly I say to you, he will dress himself and have them sit down to dine, and he will come and serve them.
38. If he comes in the second watch, or comes in the third watch, and finds them so, blessed are those servants.
39. But know this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched and not have allowed his house to be broken into.