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Luke 12:26

If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

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Luke 12:26 in other translations

KJV King James Version

If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

BSB Berean Standard Bible

So if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest?

NHEB New Heart English Bible

If then you are not able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

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In context

23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

24 Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!

25 Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?

26 If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

27 Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

28 But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?

29 “Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

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