Luke 12:26

If then you are powerless in the smallest matter, why are you solicitous about other things?

1902 William Baxter Godbey 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

25And which one of you being solicitous is able to add one moment to his existence?

27Observe the lilies, how they toil not, neither do they spin: and I say unto you, That Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these.

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Cross References

Luke 12:29And do not seek what you may eat, and what you may drink, and with what you are clothed;

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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