Bible Verses About Worldly Care: General references

"Therefore, I tell you, don't wor y about your life -- what you will eat or drink; or about your body -- what you will wear. Isn't life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Look at the birds flying about! They neither plant nor harvest, nor do they gather food into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you worth more than they are?

Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to his life?

"And why be anxious about clothing? Think about the fields of wild irises, and how they grow. They neither work nor spin thread,

yet I tell you that not even Shlomo in all his glory was clothed as beautifully as one of these.

If this is how God clothes grass in the field -- which is here today and gone tomorrow, thrown in an oven -- won't he much more clothe you? What little trust you have!

"So don't be anxious, asking, `What will we eat?,' `What will we drink?' or `How will we be clothed?'

For it is the pagans who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father knows you need them all.

But seek first his Kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Don't wor y about tomorrow -- tomorrow will worry about itself! Today has enough tsuris already!

But they responded with a chorus of excuses. The first said to him, ‘I’ve just bought a field, and I have to go out and see it. Please accept my apologies.’

Another said, ‘I’ve just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to test them out. Please accept my apologies.’

Still another said, ‘I have just gotten married, so I can’t come.’

What I want is for you to be free of concern. An unmarried man concerns himself with the Lord’s affairs,

with how to please the Lord; but the married man concerns himself with the world’s affairs, with how to please his wife;