Luke 12:7

but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value.

Young's Literal Translation

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

6'Are not five sparrows sold for two assars? and one of them is not forgotten before God,

8'And I say to you, Every one — whoever may confess with me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess with him before the messengers of God,

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Cross References

1 Samuel 14:45And the people say unto Saul, 'Doth Jonathan die who wrought this great salvation in Israel? — a profanation! Jehovah liveth, if there falleth from the hair of his head to the earth, for with God he hath wrought this day;' and the people rescue Jonathan, and he hath not died.

Job 35:11Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

Isaiah 43:3For I — Jehovah thy God, The Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour, I have appointed Egypt thine atonement, Cush and Seba in thy stead.

Matthew 10:30and of you — even the hairs of the head are all numbered;

Luke 21:18and a hair out of your head shall not 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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