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Matthew 6:30-32
New English Translation
Matthew 6:30-32
New English Translation
30 And if this is how God clothes the wild grass,[a] which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven,[b] won’t he clothe you even more,[c] you people of little faith? 31 So then, don’t worry saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 For the unconverted[d] pursue these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
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- Matthew 6:30 tn Grk “grass of the field.”
- Matthew 6:30 tn Grk “into the oven.” The expanded translation “into the fire to heat the oven” has been used to avoid misunderstanding; most items put into modern ovens are put there to be baked, not burned.sn The oven was most likely a rounded clay oven used for baking bread, which was heated by burning wood and dried grass.
- Matthew 6:30 sn The phrase even more is a typical form of rabbinic argumentation, from the lesser to the greater. If God cares for the little things, surely he will care for the more important things.
- Matthew 6:32 tn Or “unbelievers”; Grk “Gentiles.”
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