Luke 12:23

New International Version

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.

Cross References

Genesis 19:17

As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”

Job 1:12

The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

Job 2:4

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life.

Job 2:6

The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.”

Proverbs 13:8

A person’s riches may ransom their life, but the poor cannot respond to threatening rebukes.

Luke 12:22

Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.

Luke 12:24

Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!

Acts 27:38

When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.