Luke 12:26

If then you cannot even do a very little thing like that, why are you anxious about the rest?

Text-Critical English NT

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

25Which of you by being anxious can add a single moment to yoʋr span of life?

27Consider the lilies, how they grow: They do not toil or spin, yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these.

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Cross References

Luke 12:29And do not be concerned about what you will eat or what you will drink; do not be anxious about such things.

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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