Luke 12:26

If then ye are not able to do even the least, why are ye anxious about the rest?

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

In Context

25And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his age?

27Consider the lilies, how they grow. They toil not, nor do they spin, and I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed like one of these.

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Cross References

Psalms 39:6Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.

Luke 12:29And do not seek what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, and do not be unsettled.

Matthew Henry on Luke 12:23-41

Inordinate Care Reproved. 22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? 25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26 If ye then be not able to do that… Read the whole commentary →

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