³⁰ For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

³² (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

⁸ Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

² That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

³ For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

⁴ Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

³² Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

¹⁴ Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

²⁰ For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

⁵ Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

¹⁷ Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

¹ Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

⁴⁷ And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?