Luke 12:30
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
KJV
ταῦτα γὰρ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη τοῦ κόσμου ἐπιζητοῦσιν· ὑμῶν δὲ ὁ πατὴρ οἶδεν ὅτι χρῄζετε τούτων.
Greek NT
hæc enim omnia gentes mundi quærunt. Pater autem vester scit quoniam his indigetis.
Vulgate
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
ASV
For all these things do the nations of the world seek. But your Father knoweth that you have need of these things.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἐπιζητοῦσιν — SBLGNT
- ἐπιζητοῦσιν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐπιζητεῖ — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 4:2 — That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
- 1Pet 5:7 — Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
- 1Thess 4:5 — Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
- Eph 4:17 — This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
- Luke 12:24 — 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?
- Luke 12:32 — Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
- Matt 6:8 — Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
- Matt 6:8 — Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
- Matt 6:32 — (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
- Matt 6:32 — (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
- Matt 18:14 — Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
- Phil 4:19 — But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
- Ps 23:1 — The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- Ps 34:9 — O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.