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Matthew 6:33

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

KJV

ζητεῖτε δὲ πρῶτον τὴν βασιλείαν καὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην αὐτοῦ, καὶ ταῦτα πάντα προστεθήσεται ὑμῖν.

Greek NT

Quærite ergo primum regnum Dei, et justitiam ejus : et hæc omnia adjicientur vobis.

Vulgate

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

ASV

Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βασιλεία
basileia
noun · 162×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
δικαιοσύνη
dikaiosune
noun · 92×
ζητέω
zeteo
verb · 117×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
προστίθημι
prostithemi
verb · 18×
πρῶτον
proton
adverb · 57×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: βασιλείαν | WH: βασιλείαν | Treg/NIV/RP: + τοῦ θεοῦ
  • βασιλείαν — SBLGNT
  • βασιλείαν — Westcott-Hort
  • + τοῦ θεοῦ — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Doctrines that cite this verse

Historic Christian voices

21 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§305Jesus asks for childlike abandonment to the providence of our heavenly Father who takes care of his children's smallest needs: "Therefore do not be anxious, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?". . . Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well."167 Providence an…
§1942The virtue of solidarity goes beyond material goods. In spreading the spiritual goods of the faith, the Church has promoted, and often opened new paths for, the development of temporal goods as well. and so throughout the centuries has the Lord's saying been verified: "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well":47 For two thousand…
§2547The Lord grieves over the rich, because they find their consolation in the abundance of goods.340 "Let the proud seek and love earthly kingdoms, but blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven."341 Abandonment to the providence of the Father in heaven frees us from anxiety about tomorrow.342 Trust in God is a preparation for the blessedness of the poor. T…
…and 4 more from this source.
Homilies on Matthew · 2 passages
2. Whence then does He begin? And what kind of foundations of His new polity does He lay for us? Let us hearken with strict attention unto what is said. For though it was spoken unto them, it was written for the sake also of all men afterwards. And accordingly on this account, though He had His disciples in His mind in His public preaching, yet unto them He limits not His sayin…
2. Do you see how He prophesies even the place where He was to be slain. And they cast Him out, and slew Him. And Luke indeed says, that He declared what these men should suffer; and they said, God forbid; and He added the testimony [of Scripture]. For He beheld them, and said, What is it then that is written? The stone which the builders rejected, the same has become the head …
1. On the subject of attention in hearkening it is superfluous to exhort you any more, so quickly have you shown by your actions the effects of my advice. For your manner of running together, your attentive postures, the thrusting one another in your eagerness to get the inner places, where my voice may more clearly be heard by you, your unwillingness to retire from the press u…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210207.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
2. That one of you should have his father's wife. Wherefore said he not, That he should abuse his father's wife? The extreme foulness of the deed caused him to shrink. He hurries by it accordingly, with a sort of scrupulousness as though it had been explicitly mentioned before. And hereby again he aggravates the charge, implying that such things are ventured on among them as ev…
1. The blessed Paul wishes to show in the next place that this covenant is far better than the old. This then he does by first laying down remote considerations. For inasmuch as there was nothing bodily or that made a show, no temple for instance, nor Holy of Holies, nor Priest with so great apparel, no legal observances, but all things higher and more perfect, and there was no…
1. By faith (he says) Noah being warned of God. As the Son of God, speaking of His own coming, said, In the days of Noah they married and were given in marriage Luke 17:26-27, therefore the Apostle also recalled to their mind an appropriate image. For the example of Enoch, was an example only of Faith; that of Noah, on the other hand, of unbelief also. And this is a complete co…
The design of his confessions being declared, he seeks from God the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, and begins to expound the words of Genesis 1:1, concerning the creation of the world. The questions of rash disputers being refuted, What did God before he created the world? That he might the better overcome his opponents, he adds a copious disquisition concerning time. Chapte…
Is prayer an act of the appetitive or of the cognitive power? Is it fitting to pray to God? Is prayer an act of religion? Should we pray to God alone? Should we ask for something definite when we pray? Should we ask for temporal things when we pray? Should we pray for others? Should we pray for our enemies? The seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer Is prayer proper to the ration…
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth. That is, do not accumulate merely for the purpose of accumulation. Use all your substance for God's glory and the good of mankind. Take no thought for the morrow — be not anxious about the future — for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be ad…
Heidelberg Catechism · 2 passages
Q. What has God commanded us to pray for? A. Everything we need, spiritually and physically, as embraced in the prayer Christ our Lord himself taught us.
Q. What does the second request mean? A. Your kingdom come means: Rule us by your Word and Spirit in such a way that more and more we submit to you. Keep your church strong, and add to it. Destroy the devil's work; destroy every force which revolts against you and every conspiracy against your Word. Do this until your kingdom is so complete and perfect that in it you are all in…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 1:30 — But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
  • 1Cor 3:22 — Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
  • 1Kgs 3:11 — And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for
  • 1Kgs 3:13 — And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
  • 1Kgs 7:1 — But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
  • 1Kgs 17:13 — And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
  • 1Kgs 17:13 — And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
  • 1Pet 5:7 — Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
  • 1Sam 30:19 — And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.
  • 1Tim 4:8 — For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
  • 1Tim 4:8 — For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
  • 2Chr 1:7 — In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.
  • 2Chr 1:12 — Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have t
  • 2Chr 17:5 — Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance.
  • 2Chr 29:3 — He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
  • 2Chr 31:20 — And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the LORD his God.
  • 2Chr 31:21 — And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
  • 2Chr 33:13 — And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
  • 2Cor 5:21 — For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
  • 2Pet 1:1 — Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
  • 2Pet 1:11 — For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
  • 2Thess 1:5 — Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
  • Acts 20:25 — And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
  • Acts 28:31 — Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
  • Amos 5:14 — Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.
  • Col 1:13 — Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
  • Col 3:1 — If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
  • Dan 4:36 — At the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my k
  • Deut 7:13 — And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the
  • Deut 13:18 — When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
  • Deut 32:47 — For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
  • Eccl 9:10 — Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
  • Exod 22:29 — Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
  • Gen 13:2 — And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
  • Gen 24:1 — And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
  • Gen 24:35 — And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
  • Gen 49:25 — Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of t
  • Hag 1:2 — Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.
  • Hag 1:4 — Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
  • Hag 2:16 — Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.