◄ Luke 12:26 ►
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Good News Translation
If you can't manage even such a small thing, why worry about the other things?

New Revised Standard Version
If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest?

Contemporary English Version
If you don't have power over small things, why worry about everything else?

New American Bible
If even the smallest things are beyond your control, why are you anxious about the rest?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?

why.

Luke 12:29 And seek not what you shall eat or what you shall drink: and be not lifted up on high.

Psalm 39:6 Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

Ecclesiastes 7:13 Consider the works of God, that no man can correct whom he hath despised.

1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.

Context
Do Not Worry
…25And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest? 27Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these.…
Cross References
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Luke 12:25
And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Luke 12:27
Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these.

Luke 12:25
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