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
Bible References
Why
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, do not trouble about what you are to eat or drink in life, nor about what you are to put on your body; surely life means more than food, surely the body means more than clothes!
Matthew 10:10
nor a wallet for the road, nor two shirts, nor sandals, nor stick ??the workman deserves his rations.
Luke 3:11
He replied, "Let everyone who possesses two shirts share with him who has none, and let him who has food do likewise."
Luke 22:35
And he said to them, "When I sent you out with neither purse nor wallet nor sandals, did you want for anything?" "No," they said, "for nothing."
The lilies
Luke 12:27
Look how the lilies neither spin nor weave; and yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his grandeur was never robed like one of them.