Luke 12:26
24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds!
25 Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
So if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest?
27 Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.
28 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith!
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest?
- KJV
- If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
- WEB
- If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
- ASV
- If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why are ye anxious concerning the rest?
- DARBY
- If therefore ye cannot [do] even what is least, why are ye careful about the rest?
- BLB
- If, then, you⁺ are not even able [to do] the least, why are you⁺ anxious about the rest?
- ÅB
- Formår dere da ikke engang det minste, hvorfor er dere da bekymret for det andre?
- OTB
- Hvis dere ikke engang kan gjøre en veldig liten ting, hvorfor bekymrer dere dere for resten?
- B1930
- Formår I da ikke engang det minste, hvorfor er I da bekymret for det andre?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
Read in contextPsalms 39:6
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 7:13
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
Read in context