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Life is more than food, and the body than clothing.
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God's Greater Gift Guarantee
Commentators unanimously highlight Jesus' powerful logic. Since God has already given you the far greater and more complex gifts of life and a body, you can confidently trust Him to provide the lesser necessities of food and clothing. As one scholar notes, the Creator of the 'curiously wrought' body will surely not fail to clothe it. This reasoning is a direct antidote to anxiety.
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19th Century
Baptist
For your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. Co…
After a brief address to the crowd in vv.13–21, Jesus again turns to his disciples (cf. v.1). Observe the parallelism between v.22 and v.23: a comm…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The life is more than meat What in Matthew is put by way of question, is here strongly affirmed; and these words con…
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Presbyterian
Christ strongly emphasized this caution not to give way to unsettling, perplexing worries (Matthew 6:25—34). The arguments used here ar…