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a Matthew 6:25-34 (“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what
you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is
not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds
of the air; the neither sow nor reap not gather into barns, and yet your
heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And can
any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? And why do
you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;
they neither toil not spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not
clothed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the fields, which
is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more
clothe you - you of little faith? Therefore, do not worry, saying, ‘What will we
eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For it is the Gentles
who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that
you need all these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. “So do not
worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's
trouble is enough for today.)

b 1 Kings 5:4 (But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side;
there is neither adversary nor misfortune.)