Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body than clothes?

And what was sown among the thorns means the man who listens to the message, and then the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich choke the message out, and it yields nothing.

Have no anxiety about anything, but make all your wants known to God in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving.

He that

But a woman who is really a widow, and has no children, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to prayers and entreaties night and day.

That belong to the lord

An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the Lord's work, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but the woman who marries is concerned with worldly affairs, and how she can please her husband.

General references

The disciples said to him, "If that is a man's relation to his wife, it is better not to marry!"

To all who are unmarried and to widows, I would say this: It is an excellent thing if they can remain single as I am.