![]() ![]() Thus “life (or the soul - see below) continues even without sustenance” including after death according to both Greek and Jewish beliefs in an eternal soul, and “the body continues even without clothes,” that is you can live even naked. ![]() The word “more than” in this context means that the first object being compared exists even without the second. In this verse he begins a discussion of why one should not be over anxious about all material things. Jesus has just told his followers that it is impossible to serve both God and wealth. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 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. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Ouchi hē psychē pleion estin tēs trophēs kai to sōma tou endymatos? This verse shifts the discussion from one of money to one of worry.Ĭontent Matthew 6:21–27 from the 1845 illuminated book of The Sermon on the Mount, designed by Owen Jones. ![]() Matthew 6:25 is the twenty-fifth verse of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. ![]()
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