Luke 12:24
Look at the ravens. They don't sow or reap, they don't have any storerooms or barns, but God feeds them. And you're far more valuable than birds!
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23Life is about more than food, and the body is about more than wearing clothes.
25Can you add an hour to your life by worrying about it?
Cross References
1 Kings 17:1Elijah the Tishbite (from Tishbe in Gilead), told Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, the one I serve, in the years to come there will not be any dew or rain unless I say so!”
Job 38:41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God, weak from starvation?”
Psalms 147:9He gives food to the animals, and to the baby ravens when they call.
Mark 6:26The king was very upset, but because of the oaths he'd made in front of his guests, he didn't want to refuse her.
Luke 12:30These are all things that people in the world worry about, but your Father knows you need them.
Matthew Henry on Luke 12:23-41
Inordinate Care Reproved. 22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? 25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26 If ye then be not able to do that… Read the whole commentary →