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Luke 12:22-26

"Then Jesus said to his disciples: Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear... Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?"

Jesus exposes the futility of worry: it cannot add even an hour to life. Anxiety about basic needs and the future is shown to be both unnecessary (because of the Father's care) and ineffective. The argument invites release of what cannot be controlled.