Luke 12:26

If then you are unable to do even a very little thing, why be over-anxious about other matters?

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 of you is able by anxious thought to add a moment to his life?

27Observe the lilies, how they grow. They neither labour nor spin. And yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was as beautifully dressed as one of these.

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Cross References

Luke 12:29"Therefore, do not be asking what you are to eat nor what you are to drink; and do not waver between hope and fear.

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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