Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
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In Context
23Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.
25Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
Cross References
1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
Job 38:41Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
Psalms 147:9He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
Mark 6:26The king was consumed with sorrow, but because of his oaths and his guests, he did not want to refuse her.
Luke 12:30For the Gentiles of the world strive after all these things, and your Father knows that 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 →