since your servant has found mercy before you, and you have magnified your righteousness, in what you do towards me that my soul may live,- but I shall not be able to escape to the mountain, lest perhaps the calamity overtake me and I die.

"Because of this I say to you, do not worry [about] your life--what you shall eat, or what you shall drink--nor [about] your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food and the body [more than] clothing?

nor by the hands of men is He served, as though He needed anything, for He gives to all life, and breath, with respect to all things.

for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'