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Matthew 6:27

Worry and anxiety

25 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

26 Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

28 And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin.

29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.

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BSB
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
KJV
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
WEB
“Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
ASV
And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?
DARBY
But which of you by carefulness can add to his growth one cubit?
BLB
And who of you⁺, being anxious, is able to add to his lifespan one cubit?
ÅB
Og hvem av dere kan med all sin bekymring legge en alen til sin livslengde?
OTB
Kan noen av dere, ved å bekymre dere, forlenge livet med en eneste time?
B1930
Og hvem av eder kan med all sin bekymring legge en alen til sin livslengde?

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