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And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
Luke 12:25 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
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22 And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you: Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on.
23 The life is more than the meat: and the body is more than the raiment.
24 Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they?
25 And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
26 If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?
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.
28 Now, if God clothe in this manner the grass that is to-day in the field and to-morrow is cast into the oven: how much more you, O ye of little faith?
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