Matthew 6:27

Which one of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his lifespan?

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In The King James Version

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

In Context

26Look at the birds in the air. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not more valuable than they are?

28Why are you anxious about clothing? Think about the lilies in the fields, how they grow. They do not work, and they do not spin cloth.

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Cross References

Psalms 39:5See, you have made my days only the width of my hand, 1 and my lifetime is like nothing before you. 1 Surely every man is a single breath. Selah 1

Matthew 5:36Neither swear by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

1 Corinthians 12:18But God arranged each part of the body as he designed it.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 6:26-34

The Sermon on the Mount. 25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider… Read the whole commentary →

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