Therefore I say unto you, be not careful for your life what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what raiment ye shall put on. Is not the life more worth than meat? and the body more of value than raiment?

But when they deliver you up, take no thought, how, or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you even in that same hour, what ye shall say.

He that was sown among thorns, is he that heareth the word of God, but the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and so is he made unfruitful.

And Jesus answered, and said unto her, "Martha, Martha, thou carest, and are troubled, about many things:

And ask not what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither climb ye up on high:

Art thou called a servant? Care not for it. Nevertheless if thou mayst be free, use it rather.

Cast all your care to him: for he careth for you.

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Then was Jacob greatly afraid, and wist not which way to turn himself, and divided the people that was with him and the sheep, oxen and camels, into two companies,

Hannah answered, and said, "Not so, my lord. I am a woman sorrowful in mine heart, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

And David was in a shrewd strait: for the people intended to stone him because the hearts of the people were vexed for their sons and their daughters.

But Hezekiah the king and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed concerning the thing and cried up to heaven.

And when he was in tribulation he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself exceedingly before the God of his fathers,

They had an eye unto him, and were lightened; and their faces were not ashamed.

Open my lips, O LORD, that my mouth may show thy praise.

In the evening, and morning, and at noon day will I mourn and complain: and he shall hear my voice.

O put your trust in him always, ye people; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our hope. Selah.

Put thy trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and look: what thou devisest, it shall prosper.

Thou hast cried unto me, and I have heard thee: I have showed great and high things, which were unknown unto you."

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

He put forth a similitude unto them, signifying that men ought always to pray, and not to be weary,

And he spake unto his disciples, "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat: Neither for your body, what ye shall put on.

and pray always with all manner prayer and supplication - and that in the spirit - and watch thereunto with all instance and supplication for all saints,

Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving,

Pray continually.

The end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore discreet, and sober, that ye may be apt to prayers.

But ye, dearly beloved, edify yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the holy ghost,

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The LORD abhorreth the sacrifice of the ungodly; but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to him.

Up, haste my love, my dove, in the holes of the rock and secret places of the walls. Show me thy face and let me hear thy voice: for thy voice is sweet and thy fashion beautiful.

Be ye not like them therefore: for your father knoweth whereof ye have need, before ye ask of him.

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And so Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidens, so that they bare.

"'If ye shall say: What shall we eat the seventh year inasmuch as we shall not sow nor gather in our increase?

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD on this manner,