Luke 12:23

For the neshamah is more than okhel and the basar more than gartel (belt) and shtreimel (expensive hat). + 12:23 Gn 47:18; Ps 16:9-10; Job 19:25,27; Isa 53:11

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

In Context

22And Rebbe, Melech, HaMoshiach said to his talmidim, Therefore, I say to you: do not have a LEV ROGEZ + 12:22 Dt 28:65 for your Chayyim, about your okhel (food) or your basar (body), what you might put on.

24Consider the ravens! They do not sow nor reap, they have no storeroom or asam (granary), yet Hashem feeds them. Of how much more worth are you than the OPH HASHOMAYIM. + 12:24 Job 38:41; Ps 147:9

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Cross References

Job 1:12And Hashem said unto HaSatan, Hinei, all that he hath is in thy yad; only upon himself put not forth thine yad. So HaSatan went out from the presence of Hashem.

Job 2:6And Hashem said unto HaSatan, Hinei, he is in thine yad; but spare his nefesh.

Acts 27:18And we were being violently tossed by the storm, so much so that the next day they were throwing the cargo overboard.

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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