^{15 Ref} He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

^{16 Ref} He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

^{17 Ref} He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

^{18 Ref} He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

^{19 Ref} I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'

^{20 Ref} "But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

^{21 Ref} So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

^{22 Ref} He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.

^{23 Ref} Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

^{24 Ref} Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

^{25 Ref} Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?

^{26 Ref} If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

^{27 Ref} Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

^{28 Ref} But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?

^{29 Ref} Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

^{30 Ref} For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

^{31 Ref} But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.