Luke 12:6

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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 you shall fear: Fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, Fear him.

7But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.

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Cross References

Luke 12:24Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; yet God feeds them: you are of far more value 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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