Psalms 145:15-16

15The eyes of all alook to you,
and you give them their food in due season.
16You bopen your hand;
you csatisfy the desire of every living thing.

Psalms 147:9

9He dgives to the beasts their food,
and to ethe young ravens that cry.

Luke 12:6-7

6Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies?
Greek  two assaria; an assarion was a Roman copper coin worth about 1/16 of a denarius (which was a day’s wage for a laborer)
And gnot one of them is forgotten before God.
7Why, heven the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; iyou are of more value than many sparrows.

Luke 12:24-31

24 jConsider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. kOf how much more value are you than the birds! 25And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his lspan of life?
Or  a single cubit to his stature; a cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
26If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,
Some manuscripts  Consider the lilies; they neither spin nor weave
yet I tell you, oeven Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, pO you of little faith! 29And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor qbe worried. 30For rall the nations of the world seek after these things, and syour Father knows that you need them. 31Instead, tseek uhis
Some manuscripts God’s
kingdom, wand these things will be added to you.


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