Matthew 6:33
Good News Translation
Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these other things.

New Revised Standard Version
But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Contemporary English Version
But more than anything else, put God's work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well.

New American Bible
But seek first the kingdom [of God] and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

seek.

1 Kings 3:11-13 And the Lord said to Solomon: Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life nor riches, nor the lives of thy enemies, but hast asked for thyself wisdom to discern judgment; . . .

1 Kings 17:13 And Elias said to her: Fear not; but go, and do as thou hast said but first make for me of the same meal a little hearth cake, and bring it to me, and after make for thyself and thy son.

2 Chronicles 1:7-12 And behold that night God appeared to him, saying: Ask what thou wilt that I should give thee. . . .

2 Chronicles 31:20,21 So Ezechias did all things which we have said in all Juda, and wrought that which was good, and right, and truth, before the Lord his God, . . .

Proverbs 2:1-9 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence. . . .

Proverbs 3:9,10 And thy barns shall be filled with abundance, and thy presses shall run over with wine. . . .

Haggai 1:2-11 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This people saith: The time is not yet come for building the house of the Lord. . . .

Haggai 2:16-19 When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten: and you went into the press, to press out fifty vessels, and they became twenty. . . .

Luke 12:31 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice: and all these things shall be added unto you.

John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you. For him hath God, the Father, sealed.

the kingdom.

Matthew 3:2 And saying: Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say: Do penance, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Matthew 13:44-46 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. . . .

Acts 20:25 And now behold, I know that all you, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.

Acts 28:31 Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, without prohibition.

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink: but justice and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Colossians 1:13,14 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, . . .

2 Thessalonians 1:5 For an example of the just judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which also you suffer.

2 Peter 1:11 For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the ever-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

his.

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.

Isaiah 45:24 For every knee shall be bowed to me, and every tongue shall swear.

Jeremiah 23:6 In those days shall Juda be saved, and Israel shall dwell confidently: and this is the name that they shall call him: The Lord our just one.

Luke 1:6 And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame.

Romans 1:17 For the justice of God is revealed therein, from faith unto faith, as it is written: The just man liveth by faith.

Romans 3:21,22 But now, without the law, the justice of God is made manifest, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. . . .

Romans 10:3 For they, not knowing the justice of God and seeking to establish their own, have not submitted themselves to the justice of God.

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

2 Corinthians 5:21 Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him.

Philippians 3:9 And may be found in him, not having my justice, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ Jesus, which is of God: justice in faith.

2 Peter 1:1 Simon Peter, servant and apostle of Jesus Christ: to them that have obtained equal faith with us in the justice of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ.

and all.

Matthew 19:29 And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting.

Leviticus 25:20,21 But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits? . . .

Psalm 34:9,10 Fear the Lord, all ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him. . . .

Psalm 37:3,18,19,25 Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches. . . .

Psalm 84:11,12 For God loveth mercy and truth: the Lord will give grace and glory. . . .

Mark 10:30 Who shall not receive an hundred times as much, now in this time: houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions: and in the world to come life everlasting.

Luke 18:29,30 Who said to them: Amen, I say to you, there is no man that hath left home or parents or brethren or wife or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, . . .

Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?

1 Corinthians 3:22 For all things are yours, whether it be Paul or Apollo or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. For all are yours.

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

Context
Do Not Worry
32For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. 33Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you. 34Be not therefore solicitous for to morrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.…
Cross References
1 Kings 3:13
Yea, and the things also which thou didst not ask, I have given thee; to wit, riches and glory: so that no one hath been like thee among the kings in all days heretofore.

Psalm 112:3
Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth for ever and ever.

Proverbs 8:18
For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.

Proverbs 10:3
The slothful hand hath wrought poverty: but the hand of the industrious getteth riches. He that trusteth to lies feedeth the winds: and the same runneth after birds, that fly away.

Proverbs 28:10
He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way, shall fall in his own destruction: and the upright shall possess his goods.

Ecclesiastes 10:2
The heart of a wise man is in his right hand, and the heart of a fool is in his left hand.

Isaiah 26:9
My soul hath desired thee in the night: yea, and with my spirit within me in the morning early I will watch to thee. When thou shalt do thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice.

Isaiah 33:6
And there shall be faith in thy times: riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.

Matthew 19:28
And Jesus said to them: Amen I say to you, that you who have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the seat of his majesty, you also shall sit on twelve seats judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Matthew 19:29
And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting.

Mark 10:29
Jesus answering said: Amen I say to you, there is no man who hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,

Luke 12:31
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice: and all these things shall be added unto you.

Luke 18:29
Who said to them: Amen, I say to you, there is no man that hath left home or parents or brethren or wife or children, for the kingdom of God's sake,

1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

Matthew 6:32
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