Luke 12:23 - The Scriptures 2009

²³ “The life is more than the food, and the body is more than the 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 it came to be, when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed.”

Job 1:12

And יהוה said to Satan, “See, all that he has is in your hand. Only do not lay a hand on himself.” And Satan went out from the presence of יהוה.

Job 2:4

And Satan answered יהוה and said, “Skin for skin, and all that a man has he would give for his life!

Job 2:6

And יהוה said to Satan, “See, he is in your hand, only spare his life.”

Proverbs 13:8

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, But the poor does not hear rebuke.

Luke 12:22

And He said to His taught ones, “For this reason I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you shall eat; nor about the body, what you shall put on.

Luke 12:24

Look at the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor granary, and Elohim feeds them. How much more valuable are you than the birds?”

Acts 27:38

And being satisfied with food, they were lightening the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.