Matthew 6:26, 31-33. Behold the birds of the air, for they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they? … Therefore, take no thought, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "With what will we be clothed?" (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
John 6:27. Do not labour for the food that perishes, but for that food which endures unto everlasting life, which the Son of man will give to you. For him has God the Father sealed.
Luke 16:13. No servant can work for two masters. Either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot work for God and mammon [money].
Matthew 4:18-22. Jesus… saw two brothers… casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers. He said to them, "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men," and they straightway left their nets and followed him.
And going on from there he saw two other brothers… in a ship with their father, mending their nets, and he called them. They immediately left the ship and their father and followed him.
Luke 5:27-28. He saw a publican… sitting at the receipt of custom, and he said to him, "Follow me," and he left all, rose up, and followed him.
Luke 12:32-33. Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell what you have and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with bags that do not wax old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches neither moth corrupts.
Luke 14:33. Whoever… does not forsake all that he has cannot be my disciple.
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