Luke 12:23
Good News Translation
Life is much more important than food, and the body much more important than clothes.

New Revised Standard Version
For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

Contemporary English Version
Life is more than food or clothing.

New American Bible
For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The life is more than the meat: and the body is more than the raiment.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The life is more than the meat: and the body is more than the raiment.

Genesis 19:17 And they brought him forth, and set him without the city: and there they spoke to him, saying: Save thy life: look not back, neither stay thou in all the country about: but save thy self in the mountain, lest thou be also consumed.

Job 1:12 Then the Lord said to Satan: Behold, all that he hath is in thy hand: only put not forth thy hand upon his person. And Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.

Job 2:4,6 And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life: . . .

Proverbs 13:8 The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but he that is poor, beareth not reprehension.

Acts 27:18,19,38 And we, being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship. . . .

Context
Do Not Worry
22And 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. 23The life is more than the meat: and the body is more than the raiment. 24Consider 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?…
Cross References
Luke 12:22
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.

Luke 12:24
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?

Luke 12:22
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