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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" (Matthew 6:34) sounds like Jesus is talking about moral wickedness lurking in each day.
'Evil' at the end of Matthew 6:34 means everyday trouble or hardship, not moral wickedness or sin.
Matthew 6:34, in every translation this tool compares.
Jesus closes his teaching on worry with, "Take therefore no thought for the morrow… Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." He isn't saying each day contains its own quota of sin: he's saying each day already brings enough trouble, difficulty, and hardship of its own without borrowing tomorrow's worries in advance. The Greek word (kakia) had this broader range of "trouble" or "badness/hardship," not only moral evil.
Modern English has narrowed "evil" almost entirely to serious moral wrongdoing (think villains and atrocities), so a reader can miss that Jesus is simply talking about the ordinary hard stuff of daily life, not a hidden sin quota.
