Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

The lilies

General references

Bible References

Why

Matthew 6:25
“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 10:10
Don’t take a traveling bag for the road, or an extra shirt, sandals, or a walking stick, for the worker is worthy of his food.
Luke 3:11
He replied to them, “The one who has two shirts must share with someone who has none, and the one who has food must do the same.”
Luke 22:35
He also said to them, “When I sent you out without money-bag, traveling bag, or sandals, did you lack anything?”

“Not a thing,” they said.

The lilies

Luke 12:27
“Consider how the wildflowers grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these!

General references

Song of Songs 2:2
M Like a lily among thorns,
so is my darling among the young women.

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