Luk 12:27
Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
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And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. {grow: or, blossom} {cast...: Heb. strike}
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?