XVI.
Precepts.
And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.
2 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
3 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?
4 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
5 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
6 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.
7 If then God so clothe the grass, which is today in the field, and tomorrow is cast into the
