Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
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Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
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The lyfe is moare then meate and the bodye is moare then rayment.
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The life is more then meate: and the body more then the raiment.
Cross-references (7)
Passages linked to Luke 12:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 2:6 Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
- Proverbs 13:8 The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.
- Job 2:4 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
- Acts 27:18-19 As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard. On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.
- Job 1:12 Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.
- Genesis 19:17 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!”
- Acts 27:38 When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 23 The life is more than meat, and the…
23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Ver. 23. See Mat 6:25-27
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain The life is more than meat,.... What in Matthew…
The life is more than meat,.... What in Matthew is put by way of question, is here strongly affirmed; and these words contain a reason or argument to dissuade from an anxious, distressing thought and care about the necessaries, conveniencies, and comforts of life: and all the Oriental versions read, "for", or "seeing the life is more than meat"; that is, it is more excellent and valuable in its own nature, being that for the support of which meat is provided; and seeing God is the author and giver of life, it need not be doubted but he will give meat for the maintenance and continuance of it, so long as is his pleasure it should subsist.
And the body is more than raiment; it is of more worth than the richest clothing that can be had; the finest piece of embroidery is not comparable to the curious workmanship of the body, Psa 139:15 and he that has so curiously wrought that, will not fail to provide suitable and proper clothing for it; and therefore there ought to be no anxiety on this account; See Gill on Mat 6:5.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain IV. To the disciples he thereupon counsels absolute unwordliness,…
IV. To the disciples he thereupon counsels absolute unwordliness, Luk_12:23-24.
For the correspondent passages in Matthew consult the marginal references.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. The life is more than meat, &c.] and…
23. The life is more than meat, &c.] and the spirit is more than either the body, or the natural life.
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