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Luke 12:22-31

He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your
life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.  For life
is more than food, and the body more than clothing.  Consider the ravens:
they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet
God feeds them.  Of how much more value are you than the birds!  And can
any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?  If then
you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about
the rest?  Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin
yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of
these.  But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today
and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you --
you of little faith!  And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and
what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying.  For it is the nations of
the world that strive after all these things, and your Father knows that
you need them.  Instead, strive for his kingdom, and these things will be
given to you as well.