I am going to read a familiar passage to you for today's text. It is a passage that we have all read a number of times - probably so many times that it is committed to memory. This time, however, I am going to read from two different translations as I will be doing the rest of tonight. First, I will read from the King James Version and then from the Simple English Translation.
Matthew 6:25-34 (King James)
25. 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. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26. Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27. Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
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