Matthew 6:27

World English Bible (2000)

"Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 3:14 : 14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.
  • Luke 12:25-26 : 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?
  • Matt 5:36 : 36 Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can't make one hair white or black.
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah. 6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
  • 1 Cor 12:18 : 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.

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  • Luke 12:21-31
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    96%

    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.

    23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

    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.

  • Matt 6:28-34
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    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.

  • Matt 6:24-26
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    81%

    24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

    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?

  • Matt 10:28-31
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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.

    29 "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,

    30 but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

    31 Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

  • Luke 12:6-7
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    6 "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

    7 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don't be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

  • Luke 14:28
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    28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

  • Luke 12:15-18
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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."

    16 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

    17 He reasoned within himself, saying, 'What will I do, because I don't have room to store my crops?'

    18 He said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

  • Matt 6:7-8
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    7 In praying, don't use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

    8 Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

  • 1 Pet 5:7
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    7 casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

    12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Matt 6:19-21
    3 verses
    67%

    19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

    20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;

    21 for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

  • Jas 4:14
    66%

    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.

  • John 6:27
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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."

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

  • Matt 5:36
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    36 Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can't make one hair white or black.

  • Phil 4:6
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    6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

  • Luke 24:38
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    38 He said to them, "Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?

  • Luke 12:33
    64%

    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.

  • Deut 28:66
    64%

    66 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.

  • Isa 2:22
    64%

    22 Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

  • Matt 16:26
    64%

    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?