Luke 12:26 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁶ So, if you are not able to do even a little thing like that, why are you worrying about the rest?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ If then you are not able to do such a little thing as that, why are you anxious and troubled with cares about the rest?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why are ye anxious concerning the rest?

Common English Bible

²⁶ If you can’t do such a small thing, why worry about the rest?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Therefore, if you are not capable, in what is so little, why be anxious about the rest?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?

Luke 12:26 Cross References

Matthew 6:25

“So I tell you, do not worry about [the material things of] your life, [such as] what you will eat or what you will drink, or about what you will wear on your body. There are more important things in life than food, and more important things about your body than the clothing you wear.

Luke 12:25

And which one of you can worry yourself into living a single day longer?

Luke 12:27

“Consider how [wild] lilies grow; they do not work or weave, yet I tell you, even Solomon, clothed in his very finest royal robes, was never dressed [as luxuriously] as one of these [flowers].

Luke 12:29

So, do not look [anxiously] for what you will eat, and what you will drink, and do not be [continually] worried [i.e., about such things].

1 Peter 5:7

Place all your anxious cares upon God [in prayer], because He genuinely cares about you.