Matthew 6:27

Which of you, by his anxiety, can add one span to his life?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

In Context

26Observe the birds of the air, that they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into granaries. Yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?

28And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they toil not, nor do they spin.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:36neither shall you swear by your head, for you can not make one hair white or black.

1 Corinthians 12:18But now God has placed the members, each of them, in the body, as it has pleased him.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 6:26-34

The Sermon on the Mount. 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider… Read the whole commentary →

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