Luke 12:7
But even the hairs of your head are numbered. Have no fear: you are of more value than a flock of sparrows.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
6Are not five sparrows given in exchange for two farthings? and God has every one of them in mind.
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:45And the people said to Saul, Is death to come to Jonathan, the worker of this great salvation for Israel? Let it not be so: by the living Lord, not one hair of his head is to be touched, for he has been working with God today. So the people kept Jonathan from death.
Job 35:11Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?
Isaiah 43:3For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.
Matthew 10:30But the hairs of your head are all numbered.
Luke 21:18But not a hair of your head will come to destruction.
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 →