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19 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures buried in the ground, a
place where rust and moth destroy and where thieves break through and
steal.

20 But lay up for yourselves a treasure in heaven, where neither
rust nor moth destroys and where thieves do not break through and steal.
21 For where your treasure is, there also is your heart.
22 The eye is the lamp of the body; if therefore your eye be

bright, your whole body is also lighted.
23 But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be dark. If
therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how much greater will be your

darkness.
24 No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one
and love the other; or he will honour one and despise the other. You cannot

serve God and mammon (wealth).
25 For this reason, I say to you, Do not worry for your life, what
you will eat or and what you will drink, nor for your body, what you will

wear. Behold, is not life much more important than food, and the body
than clothing?
26 Observe the birds of the sky, for they do not sow, neither do
they harvest nor gather into barns, and yet your Father in heaven feeds

them. Are you not much important than they?
27 Who is among you who by worrying can add one cubit to his
statute?

28 Why do you worry about clothing? Observe the wild flowers,
how they grow; they do not get tired out, nor do they spin.
29 But I say to you that Solomon with all of his glory was arrayed
like one of them.

30 Now if God clothes in such fashion the grass of the field, which
today is and tomorrow falls into the fireplace, is he not much more mindful
of you, O you of little faith?

31 Therefore do not worry or say, What will we eat, or what will
we drink, or with what will we be clothed?
32 For worldly people seek after all these things. Your Father in

heaven knows that all of these things are also necessary for you.
33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and
all these things shall be added to you.

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