Luke 12:26

If, then, you are not able for the least—why are you anxious for the rest?

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

In Context

25And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

27Consider the lilies, how do they grow? They do not labor, nor do they spin, and I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed as one of these;

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Cross References

Psalms 39:6Only, each habitually walks in an image, || Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, || He heaps up and does not know who gathers them.

Luke 12:29And you—do not seek what you may eat, or what you may drink, and do not be in suspense,

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 →

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