Luke 12:26

If then you are not able to do such a very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?

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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 cubit to his lifespan?

27Consider the lilies—how they grow. They do not labor, neither do they spin. Yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.

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Cross References

Psalms 39:6Surely every man walks about like a shadow. 1 Surely everyone hurries about 1 to accumulate riches although they do not know who will receive them. 1

Luke 12:29Do not look for what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not be anxious.

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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