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

²³ 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

²³ The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ For life is more than food, and the body [more] than clothes.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ For the life is more than the food, and the body than the raiment.

Common English Bible

²³ There is more to life than food and more to the body than clothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Luke 12:23 Cross References

Acts 27:38

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

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?