Matthew 6:29
Good News Translation
But I tell you that not even King Solomon with all his wealth had clothes as beautiful as one of these flowers.

New Revised Standard Version
yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.

Contemporary English Version
But I tell you that Solomon with all his wealth wasn't as well clothed as one of them.

New American Bible
But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.

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1 Kings 10:5-7 And the meat of his table, and the apartments of his servants, and the order of his ministers, and their apparel, and the cupbearers, and the holocausts, which he offered in the house of the Lord, she had no longer any spirit in her; . . .

2 Chronicles 9:4-6,20-22 And the meats of his table, and the dwelling places of his servants, and the attendance of his officers, and their apparel, his cupbearers also, and their garments, and the victims which he offered in the house of the Lord: there was no more spirit in her, she was so astonished. . . .

1 Timothy 2:9,10 In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire: . . .

1 Peter 3:2-5 Considering your chaste conversation with fear. . . .

Context
Do Not Worry
28And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. 29But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. 30And if the grass of the field, which is to day, and to morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith?…
Cross References
1 Kings 10:4
And when the queen of Saba saw all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had built,

2 Chronicles 9:4
And the meats of his table, and the dwelling places of his servants, and the attendance of his officers, and their apparel, his cupbearers also, and their garments, and the victims which he offered in the house of the Lord: there was no more spirit in her, she was so astonished.

2 Chronicles 9:20
And all the vessels of the king's table were of gold, and the vessels of the house of the forest of Libanus were of the purest gold. For no account was made of silver in those days.

Matthew 6:28
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