But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
The verse emphasizes that the Christian should be content with necessities. Thus, some object to the idea that including shelter is putting more than is intended into the passage. According to Cambridge Greek Testament, etymologically, the word "raiment" might include shelter as well as clothing; however, he emphasizes that shelter is an inappropriate idea here. "Food and raiment," he says, "are the two indispensable conditions of life, although the true zoe (life) is more than those (Matthew 6:25)" (Bernard 95). We recognize on the one hand some kind of shelter is necessary, while we also realize the passage cannot be permitted to introduce any kind of shelter man might desire to rationalize.