Matthew 6:27

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.

3 songs meet this passage

  • “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.

  • “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.

Elsewhere in Matthew 6