Luke 12:26

Webster's Bible (1833)

If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 39:6 : 6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
  • Eccl 7:13 : 13 Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
  • Luke 12:29 : 29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
  • 1 Pet 5:7 : 7 casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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  • Luke 12:21-25
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    21So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

    22He 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.

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

    24Consider 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!

    25Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?

  • Matt 6:24-34
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    84%

    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.

    25Therefore, 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?

    26See 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 cubit to the measure of his life?

    28Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,

    29yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.

    30But 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?'

    32For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

    33But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

    34Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.

  • Luke 12:27-33
    7 verses
    81%

    27Consider 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.

    28But 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?

    29Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

    30For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

    31But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

    32Don't be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

    33Sell 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.

  • Luke 12:6-7
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    6"Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins{An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour's wages for an agricultural laborer.}? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

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

  • Matt 10:28-31
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    28Don'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{An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of a denarius (approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural labor).}? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,

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

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

  • Luke 16:10-12
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    10He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

    11If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

    12If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

  • Luke 12:15-18
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    15He 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."

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

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

    18He 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.

  • Mark 4:31
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    31It's like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,

  • Luke 14:28
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    28For 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?

  • Matt 13:32
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    32which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches."

  • Matt 11:28-29
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    28"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

    29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

  • Luke 12:11
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    11When they bring you before the synagogues, the rulers, and the authorities, don't be anxious how or what you will answer, or what you will say;

  • Matt 6:19
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    19"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

  • Matt 6:8
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    8Therefore don't be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

  • Luke 12:4
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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.

  • Matt 16:8
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    8Jesus, perceiving it, said, "Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, 'because you have brought no bread?'

  • Luke 10:41
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    41Jesus answered her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things,

  • Mark 4:25
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    25For whoever has, to him will more be given, and he who doesn't have, from him will be taken away even that which he has."

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

  • Matt 25:45
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    45"Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most assuredly I tell you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, you didn't do it to me.'