Luke 12:23

Holman Christian Standard Bible

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

Cross References

Genesis 19:17

As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away! ”

Job 1:12

“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “everything he owns is in your power. However, you must not lay a hand on Job himself.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence.

Job 2:4

“Skin for skin! ” Satan answered the Lord. “A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.

Job 2:6

“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.”

Proverbs 13:8

Riches are a ransom for a man’s life, but a poor man hears no threat.

Luke 12:22

Then He said to His disciples: “Therefore I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat; or about the body, what you will wear.

Luke 12:24

Consider the ravens: They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than the birds?

Acts 27:38

When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the grain overboard into the sea.