(22)Then said he to his disciples, For this reason I tell you, Be under no anxiety about your life, what ye shall eat, nor for your body, how ye shall be clothed. (23)The life is more than food, and the body than raiment. (24)Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap; they have neither storehouse nor barn; yet God feedeth them: how much are ye more excellent than the birds? (25)Which of you, with all his anxiety, can add one moment to his life? (26)If therefore ye are unable to do the least thing, why are ye anxious about the others? (27)Observe the lillies how they grow up, they toil not, nor spin; but I tell you, that Solomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these. (28)If God then so clothe the grass in the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is thrown into the furnace; how much more you, O ye of little faith? (29)So then be not ye inquisitive what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor be agitated with restless anxiety. (30)For after all these things are the nations of the world seeking; and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. (31)But seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be given you over. (32)Fear not, little flock! for your Father takes delight in giving you the kingdom. (33)Sell all your possessions, and give in charity; make yourselves purses that wax not old, a treasure never failing in the heavens, where no thief approaches, nor doth the moth destroy. (34)For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (35)Let your loins be firmly girded round, and your lamps burning: (36)and ye like men, expecting their master, when he shall return from the marriage; that when he comes and knocks, they may instantly open the door for him. (37)Blessed are those servants, whom the Master, when he cometh, shall find watchful: verily I say unto you, that he will gird up himself, and make them sit down at table, and come and wait upon them. (38)And if he come in the second watch, or in the third watch, and find them so watchful, blessed are those servants. (39)Now this be assured of, that if the master of the family had known at what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through. (40)Therefore be ye also ready, for at an hour that ye think not of, the Son of man cometh.