Luke 12:26 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

²⁶ If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest?

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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

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up, and do not know who will gather.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?

Matthew 6:25

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Luke 12:25

And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?

Luke 12:27

Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.

Luke 12:29

And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying.

1 Peter 5:7

Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.