Matthew 6:25-27

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Matthew 6 · Words of Christ are set in red.

5 songs meet this passage

  • “Sayin', "Wake up, you need to make money," yeah”

    Stressed Out · twenty one pilots

    resonates with Matthew 6:25-27

    The pressure to measure life by money and productivity is exactly the anxious striving Jesus addresses; the song's weariness with that demand echoes his concern, even without naming a way out.

  • “The bill collectors, they ring my phone”

    I Wanna Be Rich · Calloway

    strains against Matthew 6:25

    Jesus addresses this exact anxiety over provision, offering trust instead of hustle as the answer to financial worry.

  • Million Little Miracles (feat. Joe L Barnes) · Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music

    resonates with Matthew 6:25-26

    Counting ordinary provisions like breath and clothing as miracles reflects Jesus' own teaching to notice the Father's care in daily sustenance, not just dramatic rescue.

  • “Why are you still so afraid?”

    Vienna · Billy Joel

    resonates with Matthew 6:27

    Jesus asks the same probing question about anxious striving: worry adds nothing to a life, it only steals peace from it.

  • Mr. Brightside · The Killers

    strains against Matthew 6:27

    The whole song is anxious, looping rumination; Jesus asks whether such worry adds anything but torment.

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