1 Corinthians 7:32 Cross References - Goodspeed

³² I want you to be free from all anxiety. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's work, and how he can please the Lord.

²⁵ Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about life, wondering what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, wondering what you will have to wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the wild birds. They do not sow or reap, or store their food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more account than they? ²⁷ But which of you with all his worry can add a single hour to his life? ²⁸ Why should you worry about clothing? See how the wild flowers grow. They do not toil or spin, ²⁹ and yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was never dressed like one of them. ³⁰ But if God so beautifully dresses the wild grass, which is alive today and is thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more surely clothe you, you who have so little faith? ³¹ So do not worry and say, 'What shall we have to eat?' or 'What shall we have to drink?' or 'What shall we have to wear?' ³² For these are all things the heathen are in pursuit of, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need all this. ³³ But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides. ³⁴ So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries of its own. Let each day be content with its own ills.

²² And what was sown among the thorns means the man who listens to the message, and then the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich choke the message out, and it yields nothing.

⁶ Have no anxiety about anything, but make all your wants known to God in prayer and entreaty, and with thanksgiving.

⁵ But a woman who is really a widow, and has no children, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to prayers and entreaties night and day.