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Selected Verse: Matthew 6:26 - Strong Concordance

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Mt 6:26 Strong Concordance Behold [1689] [1519] the fowls [4071] of the air [3772]: for [3754] they sow [4687] not [3756], neither [3761] do they reap [2325], nor [3761] gather [4863] into [1519] barns [596]; yet [2532] your [5216] heavenly [3770] Father [3962] feedeth [5142] them [846]. Are [1308] ye [5210] not [3756] much [3123] better than [1308] they [846]?
  King James Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Behold the fowls of the air--in Mat 6:28, "observe well," and in Luk 12:24, "consider"--so as to learn wisdom from them.

for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?--nobler in yourselves and dearer to God. The argument here is from the greater to the less; but how rich in detail! The brute creation--void of reason--are incapable of sowing, reaping, and storing: yet your heavenly Father suffers them not helplessly to perish, but sustains them without any of those processes. Will He see, then, His own children using all the means which reason dictates for procuring the things needful for the body--looking up to Himself at every step--and yet leave them to starve?
 
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24 Consider [2657] the ravens [2876]: for [3754] they neither [3756] sow [4687] nor [3761] reap [2325]; which [3739] neither [3756] have [2076] storehouse [5009] nor [3761] barn [596]; and [2532] God [2316] feedeth [5142] them [846]: how much [4214] more [3123] are [1308] ye [5210] better than [1308] the fowls [4071]?
28 And [2532] why [5101] take ye thought [3309] for [4012] raiment [1742]? Consider [2648] the lilies [2918] of the field [68], how [4459] they grow [837]; they toil [2872] not [3756], neither [3761] do they spin [3514]: