Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, MatthewWeymouth, Richard Francis
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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Matthew
Weymouth, Richard Francis
Bible. Matthew
006:025 For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your lives,
inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet
about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on.
Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body
than its clothing?
006:026 Look at the birds which fly in the air: they do not sow or reap
or store up in barns, but your Heavenly Father feeds them:
are not you of much greater value than they?
006:027 Which of you by being over-anxious can add a single foot
to his height?
006:028 And why be anxious about clothing? Learn a lesson from the
wild lilies. Watch their growth. They neither toil nor spin,
006:029 and yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his magnificence
could array himself like one of these.
006:030 And if God so clothes the wild herbage which to-day flourishes
and to-morrow is thrown into the oven, is it not much more
certain that He will clothe you, you men of little faith?
006:031 Do not be over-anxious, therefore, asking `What shall we eat?'
or `What shall we drink?' or `What shall we wear?'
006:032 For all these are questions that Gentiles are always asking;
but your Heavenly Father knows that you need these things--
all of them.
006:033 But make His Kingdom and righteousness your chief aim,
and then these things shall all be given you in addition.
006:034 Do not be over-anxious, therefore, about to-morrow,
for to-morrow will bring its own cares. Enough for each day
are its own troubles.
007:001 "Judge not, that you may not be judged;
007:002 for your own judgement will be dealt--and your own
measure meted--to yourselves.
007:003 And why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye,
and not notice the beam which is in your own eye?
007:004 Or how say to your brother, `Allow me to take the splinter
out of your eye,' while the beam is in your own eye?
007:005 Hypocrite, first take the beam out of your own eye,
and then you will see clearly how to remove the splinter
from your brother's eye.
007:006 "Give not that which is holy to the dogs, nor throw your pearls
to the swine; otherwise they will trample them under their
feet and then turn and attack you.
007:007 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find;
knock, and the door will be opened to you.
007:008 For it is always he who asks that receives, he who seeks that finds,
and he who knocks that has the door opened to him.
007:009 What man is there among you, who if his son shall ask him
for bread will offer him a stone?
007:010 Or if the son shall ask him for a fish will offer him a snake?
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