Luke 12:23

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 19:17

When they had brought them out, one of them said to them, “Escape for your lives! Do not look behind you or stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be destroyed.”

Job 1:12

The Lord said to the Adversary, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not stretch out your hand against his person.” So the Adversary departed from the presence of the Lord.

Job 2:4

The Adversary answered the Lord, saying, “Skin for skin; yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Job 2:6

The Lord said to the Adversary, “Very well, he is in your hand, but spare his life.”

Proverbs 13:8

The ransom of a man’s life is his wealth, but a poor man hears no threat.

Luke 12:22

Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor for your body, what you will wear.

Luke 12:24

Consider the ravens: They neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouses nor barns. Yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds?

Acts 27:38

When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and threw the wheat into the sea.