But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
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But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
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Also even the very heres of youre heedes are nombred. Feare not therfore: ye are moare of value then many sparowes.
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Yea, and all the heares of your head are nombred: feare not therefore: yee are more of value then many sparowes.
Cross-references (9)
Passages linked to Luke 12:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 10:30-31 but the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
- Matthew 6:26 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?
- Isaiah 43:3-4 For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I have given Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you, therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.
- 2 Samuel 14:11 Then she said, “Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son.” He said, “As Yahweh lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the earth.”
- Luke 21:18 And not a hair of your head will perish.
- 1 Samuel 14:45 The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.
- Psalms 8:6 You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:
- Acts 27:34 Therefore I beg you to take some food; for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”
- Matthew 12:12 Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 7 But even the very hairs of your head…
7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Ver. 7. {See Trapp on "Mat 10:29"}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But even the very hairs of your head are…
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered,.... Not only their persons had passed under the hands of him that telleth them, who is the "Palmoni", or "wonderful numberer", as in the margin of Dan 8:13 and not only the several members of their bodies, or the more substantial parts of them, were written in the book of his purposes, according to which they were fashioned in time, but the more minute parts, and less to be regarded, were all told over, and kept in account; even the very hairs of their head, and not one of them could fall to the ground, any more than a sparrow; or be plucked off by men, without the knowledge and will of God; so careful is the providence of God, of all his people:
fear not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows; for if the hairs of their heads are as much regarded as sparrows, their persons and their lives must be of more account, than an infinite number of them, nor are they to be mentioned with them.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Matt. x, 30.
Matt. x, 30.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. Fear not therefore] Want of faith in…
Verse 7. Fear not therefore] Want of faith in the providence and goodness of God is the source of all human inquietudes and fears. He has undertaken to save and defend those to the uttermost who trust in him. His wisdom cannot be surprised, his power cannot be forced, his love cannot forget itself. Man distrusts God, and fears that he is forgotten by him, because he judges of God by himself; and he knows that he is apt to forget his Maker, and be unfaithful to him. See on Mt 10:29-31.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. even the very hairs of your head] See…
7. even the very hairs of your head] See Luk_21:18; Act_27:34; and in the O. T. 1Sa_14:45; 1Ki_1:52.
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