Luke 12:23 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For there are more important things in life than food, and [more important things about] your body than the clothing [you wear].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For life is more than food, and the body [more] than clothes.

American Standard Version (1901)

For the life is more than the food, and the body than the raiment.

Common English Bible

There is more to life than food and more to the body than clothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Luke 12:23 Cross References

Luke 12:22

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “So, I tell you, do not worry about [the material things of] your life, [such as] what you will eat or what you will wear on your body.

Luke 12:24

Look at the ravens; they do not plant seeds or harvest [a crop]; they do not have a storage locker or a barn, and [yet] God feeds them [adequately]. Are you not a lot more valuable than those birds?

Acts 27:38

And when they had eaten sufficiently, they began lightening the ship [so it would float higher] by throwing their wheat overboard.