Luke 12:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

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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

Genesis 19:17

When they had brought them outside, they said, “Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the plain; flee to the hills, or else you will be consumed.”

Job 1:12

The Lord said to the accuser, “Very well, all that he has is in your power; only do not stretch out your hand against him!” So the accuser went out from the presence of the Lord.

Job 2:4

Then the accuser answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! All that the man has he will give for his life.

Job 2:6

The Lord said to the accuser, “Very well, he is in your power; only spare his life.”

Proverbs 13:8

Wealth is a ransom for a person’s life, but a poor person pays no attention to a rebuke.

Luke 12:22

He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.

Luke 12:24

Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!

Acts 27:38

After they had satisfied their hunger, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.