Luke 12:6

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

Darby Translation

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 shew you whom ye shall fear: Fear him who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear *him*.

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

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Cross References

Psalms 113:5Who is like unto Jehovah our God, who hath placed his dwelling on high;

Psalms 147:9Who giveth to the cattle their food, to the young ravens which cry.

Luke 12:24Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How much better are *ye* 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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