KJV King James Version
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Matthew 6:26
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
WEB World English Bible
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
ASV American Standard Version
Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value than they?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
look to the fowls of the heaven, for they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and your heavenly Father doth nourish them; are not ye much better than they?
Surrounding context — Matthew 6
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great [is] that darkness!
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἐμβλέψατεG1689 · emblepōto look into/uponεἰςG1519 · eistowardτὰG3588 · hothe/this/whoπετεινὰG4071 · peteinosbirdτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoοὐρανοῦG3772 · ouranosheavenὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatοὐG3756 · ounoσπείρουσινG4687 · speirōto sowοὐδὲG3761 · oudenorθερίζουσινG2325 · therizōto reapοὐδὲG3761 · oudenorσυνάγουσινG4863 · sunagōto assembleεἰςG1519 · eistowardἀποθήκας,G596 · apothēkēstorehouseκαὶG2532 · kaiandὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoπατὴρG3962 · patērfatherὑμῶνG4771 · suyouὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoοὐράνιοςG3770 · ouraniosheavenlyτρέφειG5142 · trephōto feedαὐτά·G846 · autosit/s/heοὐχG3756 · ounoὑμεῖςG4771 · suyouμᾶλλονG3123 · mallonmoreδιαφέρετεG1308 · diapherōto spread/surpassαὐτῶν;G846 · autosit/s/he
Cross-references
Matthew 10:29-31Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.Psalm 147:9He giveth to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens which cry.Luke 12:24-32Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?Job 38:41Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.Psalm 145:15-16The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.Psalm 104:27-28These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their meat in due season.Luke 12:6-7Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?Matthew 6:32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.Matthew 7:9Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?Job 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?Genesis 1:29-31And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.Psalm 104:11-12They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
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