SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS
David O’Leary | Matthew 6:19-34
English Standard Version is used unless otherwise indicated

MATTHEW 6:19-34
19Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and
where thieves break in and steal, 20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For
where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 22The eye is the lamp of the body.
So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, 23but if your eye is bad,
your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great
is the darkness! 24No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and
love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot
serve God and money.

25Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you
will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and
the body more than clothing? 26Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap
nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more
value than they? 27And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his
span of life? 28And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these. 30But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which
today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe
you, O you of little faith? 31Therefore do not be anxious, saying, “What shall we eat?”
or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” 32For the Gentiles seek after all
these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33But seek first
the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
34Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.
Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.