Luke 12:7

But also all the hairs of your head be numbered. Therefore do not ye dread; ye be of more price, than many sparrows, (or And so, do not fear; ye be of more value, than many sparrows).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

In Context

6Whether five sparrows be not sold for two halfpence [or two farthings]; and one of them is not in forgetting before God?

8Truly I say to you (or I tell you the truth), each man that acknowledgeth me before men, man’s Son shall acknowledge him before the angels of God.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 14:45And the people said to Saul, Therefore whether Jonathan shall die, that did this great health in Israel? this is unleaveful; the Lord liveth; none hair of his head shall fall into the earth; for he hath wrought with God today. Therefore the people delivered Jonathan, that he died not. (And the people said to Saul, Should Jonathan truly die, he who hath won this great victory for Israel? No! this is unlawful; as the Lord liveth, there shall not fall to the ground one hair of his head, for he hath worked with God today. And so the people delivered Jonathan, so that he did not die.)

Job 35:11And the which teacheth us above the beasts of [the] earth, and he shall teach us above the birds of (the) heaven (s). (And who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and the birds of the air.)

Isaiah 43:3For I am thy Lord God, the Holy of Israel, thy saviour. I gave (for) thy mercy Egypt; (yea, also) Ethiopia, and Seba, for thee. (For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour. I gave up Egypt for thy ransom, yea, also Ethiopia, and Seba, for thee.)

Matthew 10:30And all the hairs of your head be numbered.

Luke 21:18And an hair of your head shall not perish; (But not a hair of your head shall perish;)

Matthew Henry on Luke 12:2-13

Christ's Charge to His Apostles. 1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. 2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known. 3 Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be… Read the whole commentary →

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