If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
Parallel Translations
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If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
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Yf ye then be not able to do that thinge which is least: why take ye thought for the remmaunt?
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If yee then bee not able to doe the least thing, why take yee thought for the remnant?
Cross-references (3)
Passages linked to Luke 12:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Peter 5:7 casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
- Psalms 39:6 “Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 26 If ye then be not able to do…
26 If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
Ver. 26. For the rest] For superfluities, when ye cannot provide yourselves of necessaries.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain If ye then be not able to do that…
If ye then be not able to do that which is least,.... As to make the smallest addition to a man's stature, or rather to add one moment to his days:
why take ye thought for the rest? which are much greater, as to preserve the body in its whole bulk, and all its parts, or for the feeding and clothing of it, or rather for the continuation and preservation of life to any length of time; for if it cannot be by all a man's care and solicitude lengthened out one moment longer than is the pleasure of God, how should it be by such anxiety continued for months and years?
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (26) If ye then be not able to do…
(26) If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least.—The words are peculiar to St. Luke’s report. If no amount of anxious care can add one cubit to our stature or the measure of our days (see Notes on Mat_6:27), how much less can we control all the myriad contingencies upon which the happiness of the future may depend!
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