26. If even the smallest things are beyond your control, why are you anxious about the rest?
27. Notice how the flowers grow. They do not toil or spin. But I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of them.
28. If God so clothes the grass in the field that grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith?
29. As for you, do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not worry anymore.
30. All the nations of the world seek for these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
31. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these other things will be given you besides.
32. Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom.
33. Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy.
34. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be.
35. “Gird your loins and light your lamps
36. and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.
37. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them.
38. And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants.
39. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
40. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.”
41. Then Peter said, “Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?”