Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? Any why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. “Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Here are the statements leading up to this phrase: Rather, he should obey God and trust in Him to provide for his physical needs.
The discussion had turned to the point at which Jesus insisted that man should not make the attainment of money his primary goal in life. The context of these two quotations is the Sermon on the Mount. Here are the various places in which the words occur:ġ. In order to properly understand what attitudes Jesus was condemning when He said, “O ye of little faith,” let us study the various contexts in which these words appear. Could it be possible that we might be of little faith? On several occasions, Jesus preceded His remarks to certain individuals with the phrase,) “O ye of little faith.” We have tended to think of these passages in relation to our denominational friends who deny that baptism is essential to salvation to such an extent that most of us have never made serious application of these words and their contexts to our own personal problems.
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