And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They do not toil, nor do they spin,

Consider the lilies, how they grow; they do not toil, they do not spin. And yet I say to you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

I have been in hardship and toil; often in watchings; in hunger and thirst; often in fastings; in cold and nakedness;

For, brothers, you remember our labor and toil. For laboring night and day in order not to put a burden on any one of you, we preached the gospel of God to you.