Luke 12:23
Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 1:12 : 12 Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don't put forth your hand." So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.
- Job 2:4 : 4 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
- Job 2:6 : 6 Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."
- Prov 13:8 : 8 The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.
- Acts 27:18-19 : 18 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard. 19 On the third day, they threw out the ship's tackle with their own hands.
- Acts 27:38 : 38 When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
- Gen 19:17 : 17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"
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- Matt 6:25-3410 verses88%
25 Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26 See the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?
27 "Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
28 Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,
29 yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.
30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?
31 "Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'
32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33 But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
34 Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.
- Luke 12:21-222 verses85%
21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."
22 He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
- Luke 12:24-318 verses80%
24 Consider the ravens: they don't sow, they don't reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
25 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
26 If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
27 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?
29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
30 For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
31 But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
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15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."
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27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
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23 Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
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8 But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
- 1 Cor 12:22-243 verses72%
22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
23 Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety;
24 whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,
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25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
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63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.
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28 Don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
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4 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
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7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
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22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.
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7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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4 But he answered, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"
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3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.
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4 But flesh with its life, its blood, you shall not eat.
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50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
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31 Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
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26 For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
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33 Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.
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15 And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
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33 Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don't grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn't fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.
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57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
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14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
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14 For the body is not one member, but many.
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2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn't satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
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53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.
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33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."
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12 So then death works in us, but life in you.