Luke 12:6

Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

In Context

5But I will show you whom ye should fear. Fear him, who, after killing, has power to cast into hell. Yes, I say to you, fear ye him.

7But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore, ye are superior to many sparrows.

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Cross References

Psalms 113:5Who is like LORD our God who has his seat on high,

Psalms 147:9He gives to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens which cry.

Luke 12:24Consider the ravens, because they do not sow, nor do they reap, for which there is no storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them. How much ye are worth more than the birds.

Matthew Henry on Luke 12:2-13

Christ's Charge to His Apostles. 1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. 3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be… Read the whole commentary →

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