Luke 12:6

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 you shall fear: fear ye him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear him.

7Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.

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Cross References

Psalms 113:5Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high:

Psalms 147:9The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.

Luke 12:24Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they?

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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