Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Fence » Made of stone walls
Idleness and sloth » Lead to » Ruin
Idleness and sloth » Effects of, afford instruction to others
Industry » The slothful devoid of
Instruction » From nature
For this cause I tell you, Be not anxious about your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life of more value than meat, and the body than raiment? Look on the birds of the air: for they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are you not of more value than they? But which of you, by his cares, can add one cubit to his stature? read more.
And why are ye anxious about clothing? Contemplate the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, nor spin: yet I tell you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. If God then so clothe a vegetable of the field, which to-day is, [in beauty], and tomorrow is cast into the furnace, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
And why are ye anxious about clothing? Contemplate the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, nor spin: yet I tell you, Not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. If God then so clothe a vegetable of the field, which to-day is, [in beauty], and tomorrow is cast into the furnace, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?