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Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
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Verse 25. A prudent provision is not prohibited, but that over-solicitude which draws the soul, the heart, and its affections from God, and his sweet all-ruling providence, to sink and degrade them in empty pursuits, which can never fill the soul. A.—Be not solicitous; [4] that is too solicitous with a trouble and anxiety of mind, as appears by the Greek.—For your life; lit. for your soul, which many times is put for life. Witham.
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