And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don’t labor or spin thread.

For this people’s heart has grown callous;
their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn back—
and I would cure them.

Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I’ll tell the reapers: Gather the weeds first and tie them in bundles to burn them, but store the wheat in my barn.’”

Because lawlessness will multiply, the love of many will grow cold.

I was naked and you clothed Me;
I was sick and you took care of Me;
I was in prison and you visited Me.’

I was a stranger
and you didn’t take Me in;
I was naked
and you didn’t clothe Me,
sick and in prison
and you didn’t take care of Me.’

But He was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him up and said to Him, “Teacher! Don’t You care that we’re going to die?”

The child grew up and became spiritually strong, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

The boy grew up and became strong, filled with wisdom, and God’s grace was on Him.

Therefore take care how you listen. For whoever has, more will be given to him; and whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”

He went over to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him. When I come back I’ll reimburse you for whatever extra you spend.’

But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, and she came up and asked, “Lord, don’t You care that my sister has left me to serve alone? So tell her to give me a hand.”

Take care then, that the light in you is not darkness.

“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!

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make money-bags for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

It’s like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”

“I tell you, Peter,” He said, “the rooster will not crow today until you deny three times that you know Me!”

This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep.

Jesus replied, “Will you lay down your life for Me? I assure you: A rooster will not crow until you have denied Me three times.

“I assure you: When you were young, you would tie your belt and walk wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will tie you and carry you where you don’t want to go.”

But Saul grew more capable and kept confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this One is the Messiah.

The shouting grew loud, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party got up and argued vehemently: “We find nothing evil in this man. What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

The next day we put in at Sidon, and Julius treated Paul kindly and allowed him to go to his friends to receive their care.

Not to mention other things, there is the daily pressure on me: my care for all the churches.

But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into Him who is the head—Christ.

so that, because of me, your confidence may grow in Christ Jesus when I come to you again.

For I have no one else like-minded who will genuinely care about your interests;

I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that once again you renewed your care for me. You were, in fact, concerned about me but lacked the opportunity to show it.

Brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.

(If anyone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God’s church?)

But one has somewhere testified:

What is man that You remember him,
or the son of man that You care for him?

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you won’t grow weary and lose heart.

Like newborn infants, desire the pure spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it for your salvation,

casting all your care on Him, because He cares about you.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.