Luke 12:7
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
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In Context
6Are not five sparrows sold for two pence? and not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.
Cross References
1 Samuel 14:45And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Jehovah liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
Job 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
Isaiah 43:3For I am Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour; I have given Egypt as thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in thy stead.
Matthew 10:30but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Luke 21:18And not a hair of your head shall 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 →