Morning Bible Study: What the Bible Says About Righteousness, Matthew 6:31-33

Matthew 6:31 So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 

32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. 

Commentary
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)

"After all these things do the Gentiles seek, v. 32.  The Gentiles seek these things, because they know not better things; they are eager for this world, because they are strangers to a better.

Your heavenly Father knows ye have need of all these things; these necessary things, food and raiment; he knows our wants better than we do ourselves; though he be in heaven, and his children on earth, he observes what the least and poorest of them has occasion for (Rev. 2:9), I know thy poverty.

Seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. v. 33. Take no thought for your life, the life of the body; for, 

• (1.) You have greater and better things to take thought about, the life of your soul, your eternal happiness; that is the one thing needful (Lu. 10:42), about which you should employ your thoughts, and which is commonly neglected in those hearts wherein worldly cares have the ascendant. 
• (2.) You have a surer and easier, a safer and more compendious way to obtain the necessaries of this life, than by carking [burden], and caring, and fretting about them; and that is, by seeking first the kingdom of God.Observe here,

Seek first the kingdom of God. Our duty is to seek; to desire, pursue, and aim at these things; it is a word that has in it much of the constitution of the new covenant in favor of us. The object of this seeking; The kingdom of God, and his righteousness; we must mind heaven as our end, and holiness as our way. And with the happiness of this kingdom, seek the righteousness of it; God's righteousness, the righteousness which he requires to be wrought in us, and wrought by us, such as exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees; we must follow peace and holiness,Heb. 12:14. 

The order of it. Seek first the kingdom of God. Let your care for your souls and another world take the place of all other cares: and let all the concerns of this life be made subordinate to those of the life to come: we must seek the things of Christ more than our own things; and if every they come in competition, we must remember to which we are to give the preference. 

The gracious promise annexed; all these things, the necessary supports of life, shall be added unto you; shall be given over and above; so it is in the margin. You shall have what you seek, the kingdom of God and his righteousness, for never any sought in vain, that sought in earnest; and besides that, you shall have food and raiment, by way of overplus.  

If we give diligence to make sure to ourselves the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof, as to all the things of this life, Jehovah-jireh—the Lord will provide as much of them as he sees good for us, and more we would not wish for."