Luke 12:23

Good News Translation

Life is much more important than food, and the body much more important than clothes.

Cross References

Genesis 19:17

Then one of the angels said, “Run for your lives! Don't look back and don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, so that you won't be killed.”

Job 1:12

“All right,” the Lord said to Satan, “everything he has is in your power, but you must not hurt Job himself.” So Satan left.

Job 2:4

Satan replied, “A person will give up everything in order to stay alive.

Job 2:6

So the Lord said to Satan, “All right, he is in your power, but you are not to kill him.”

Proverbs 13:8

The rich have to use their money to save their lives, but no one threatens the poor.

Luke 12:22

Then Jesus said to the disciples, “And so I tell you not to worry about the food you need to stay alive or about the clothes you need for your body.

Luke 12:24

Look at the crows: they don't plant seeds or gather a harvest; they don't have storage rooms or barns; God feeds them! You are worth so much more than birds!

Acts 27:38

After everyone had eaten enough, they lightened the ship by throwing all the wheat into the sea.