Luke 12:23

New Century Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 19:17

After they brought them out of the city, one of the men said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Run to the mountains, or you will be destroyed.”

Job 1:12

The Lord said to Satan, “All right, then. Everything Job has is in your power, but you must not touch Job himself.” Then Satan left the Lord’s presence.

Job 2:4

“One skin for another!” Satan answered. “A man will give all he has to save his own life.

Job 2:6

The Lord said to Satan, “All right, then. Job is in your power, but you may not take his life.”

Proverbs 13:8

The rich may have to pay a ransom for their lives, but the poor will face no such danger.

Luke 12:22

Jesus said to his followers, “So I tell you, don’t worry about the food you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body.

Luke 12:24

Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest, they don’t have storerooms or barns, but God feeds them. And you are worth much more than birds.

Acts 27:38

When they had eaten all they wanted, they began making the ship lighter by throwing the grain into the sea.