³¹ But let your chief care be for his kingdom, and these other things will be given to you in addition.

⁸ For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.

¹¹ And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;

¹² I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.

¹³ And with this I have given you what you made no request for: wealth and honour, so that no king was ever your equal.

²⁷ Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.

¹¹ The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

⁹ Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything.

⁵ Be free from the love of money and pleased with the things which you have; for he himself has said, I will be with you at all times.

³¹ What may we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

⁴² Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

³ Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

¹⁶ He will have a place on high: he will be safely shut in by the high rocks: his bread will be given to him; his waters will be certain.

¹⁹ They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.