Luke 12:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

And when they had brought them forth, they said, “Flee for your life; do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley; flee to the hills, lest you be consumed.”

Job 1:12

And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only upon himself do not put forth your hand.” So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.

Job 2:4

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

Job 2:6

And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your power; only spare his life.”

Proverbs 13:8

The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, but a poor man has no means of redemption.

Luke 12:22

And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat, nor about your body, what you shall put on.

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

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.