“So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
- KJV Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
- BSB Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.
- NKJV Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
- NASB “So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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Quick answer
Don't be anxious about tomorrow; today has enough concerns of its own. Trust God one day at a time rather than borrowing future troubles.
Overview
Jesus concludes his teaching on anxiety with a call to live in dependence day by day, leaving tomorrow in God's hands. Worry about the future only multiplies today's burdens and doubts God's ongoing provision. The verse echoes the prayer for 'daily bread,' training disciples in a humble, trusting reliance on the Father for each day.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 14
- Matt 6:25Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
- John 14:27Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
- Heb 13:5–6Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
- John 16:33I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
- Luke 11:3Give us day by day our daily bread.
- Lam 3:23They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
- 1 Kgs 17:14–16For Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘The jar of meal will not run out, and the jar of oil will not fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.’”
- Matt 6:11Give us today our daily bread.
- 1 Kgs 17:4–6You shall drink from the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there.”
- 1 Th 3:3–4that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
- Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
- 2 Kgs 7:1–2Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”
- Exod 16:18–20When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.
- Deut 33:25Your bars will be iron and brass. As your days, so your strength will be.
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