Seek the Kingdom

¹⁹"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; ²⁰but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. ²¹For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ²²"The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. ²³But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! ²⁴"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. ²⁵"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? ²⁶Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? ²⁸"So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; ²⁹and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? ³¹"Therefore do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?' or "What shall we drink?' or "What shall we wear?' ³²For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

^١٩ «لَا تَكْنِزُوا لَكُمْ كُنُوزًا عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ حَيْثُ يُفْسِدُ ٱلسُّوسُ وَٱلصَّدَأُ، وَحَيْثُ يَنْقُبُ ٱلسَّارِقُونَ وَيَسْرِقُونَ. ^٢٠بَلِ ٱكْنِزُوا لَكُمْ كُنُوزًا فِي ٱلسَّمَاءِ، حَيْثُ لَا يُفْسِدُ سُوسٌ وَلَا صَدَأٌ، وَحَيْثُ لَا يَنْقُبُ سَارِقُونَ وَلَا يَسْرِقُونَ، ^٢١لِأَنَّهُ حَيْثُ يَكُونُ كَنْزُكَ هُنَاكَ يَكُونُ قَلْبُكَ أَيْضًا. ^٢٢سِرَاجُ ٱلْجَسَدِ هُوَ ٱلْعَيْنُ، فَإِنْ كَانَتْ عَيْنُكَ بَسِيطَةً فَجَسَدُكَ كُلُّهُ يَكُونُ نَيِّرًا، ^٢٣وَإِنْ كَانَتْ عَيْنُكَ شِرِّيرَةً فَجَسَدُكَ كُلُّهُ يَكُونُ مُظْلِمًا، فَإِنْ كَانَ ٱلنُّورُ ٱلَّذِي فِيكَ ظَلَامًا فَٱلظَّلَامُ كَمْ يَكُونُ! ^٢٤«لَا يَقْدِرُ أَحَدٌ أَنْ يَخْدِمَ سَيِّدَيْنِ، لِأَنَّهُ إِمَّا أَنْ يُبْغِضَ ٱلْوَاحِدَ وَيُحِبَّ ٱلْآخَرَ، أَوْ يُلَازِمَ ٱلْوَاحِدَ وَيَحْتَقِرَ ٱلْآخَرَ. لَا تَقْدِرُونَ أَنْ تَخْدِمُوا ٱللهَ وَٱلْمَالَ. ^٢٥ «لِذَلِكَ أَقُولُ لَكُمْ: لَا تَهْتَمُّوا لِحَيَاتِكُمْ بِمَا تَأْكُلُونَ وَبِمَا تَشْرَبُونَ، وَلَا لِأَجْسَادِكُمْ بِمَا تَلْبَسُونَ. أَلَيْسَتِ ٱلْحَيَاةُ أَفْضَلَ مِنَ ٱلطَّعَامِ، وَٱلْجَسَدُ أَفْضَلَ مِنَ ٱللِّبَاسِ؟ ^٢٦اُنْظُرُوا إِلَى طُيُورِ ٱلسَّمَاءِ: إِنَّهَا لَا تَزْرَعُ وَلَا تَحْصُدُ وَلَا تَجْمَعُ إِلَى مَخَازِنَ، وَأَبُوكُمُ ٱلسَّمَاوِيُّ يَقُوتُهَا. أَلَسْتُمْ أَنْتُمْ بِٱلْحَرِيِّ أَفْضَلَ مِنْهَا؟ ^٢٧وَمَنْ مِنْكُمْ إِذَا ٱهْتَمَّ يَقْدِرُ أَنْ يَزِيدَ عَلَى قَامَتِهِ ذِرَاعًا وَاحِدَةً؟ ^٢٨وَلِمَاذَا تَهْتَمُّونَ بِٱللِّبَاسِ؟ تَأَمَّلُوا زَنَابِقَ ٱلْحَقْلِ كَيْفَ تَنْمُو! لَا تَتْعَبُ وَلَا تَغْزِلُ. ^٢٩وَلَكِنْ أَقُولُ لَكُمْ: إِنَّهُ وَلَا سُلَيْمَانُ فِي كُلِّ مَجْدِهِ كَانَ يَلْبَسُ كَوَاحِدَةٍ مِنْهَا. ^٣٠فَإِنْ كَانَ عُشْبُ ٱلْحَقْلِ ٱلَّذِي يُوجَدُ ٱلْيَوْمَ وَيُطْرَحُ غَدًا فِي ٱلتَّنُّورِ، يُلْبِسُهُ ٱللهُ هَكَذَا، أَفَلَيْسَ بِٱلْحَرِيِّ جِدًّا يُلْبِسُكُمْ أَنْتُمْ ياقَلِيلِي ٱلْإِيمَانِ؟ ^٣١فَلَا تَهْتَمُّوا قَائِلِينَ: مَاذَا نَأْكُلُ؟ أَوْ مَاذَا نَشْرَبُ؟ أَوْ مَاذَا نَلْبَسُ؟ ^٣٢فَإِنَّ هَذِهِ كُلَّهَا تَطْلُبُهَا ٱلْأُمَمُ. لِأَنَّ أَبَاكُمُ ٱلسَّمَاوِيَّ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّكُمْ تَحْتَاجُونَ إِلَى هَذِهِ كُلِّهَا. ^٣٣لَكِنِ ٱطْلُبُوا أَوَّلًا مَلَكُوتَ ٱللهِ وَبِرَّهُ، وَهَذِهِ كُلُّهَا تُزَادُ لَكُمْ.