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

²³ For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ 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.