Luke 12:7

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

In Context

6Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

8And I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 14:45And the people said to Saul: Shall Jonathan then die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? This must not be. As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people delivered Jonathan, that he should not die.

Job 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.

Isaiah 43:3For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I have given Egypt for thy atonement, Ethiopia and Saba for thee.

Matthew 10:30But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

Luke 21:18But a hair of your head shall not perish.

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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