Luke 12:23 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 12:23

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

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Commentary

2 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

Now nothing is more likely to produce conviction in believers that God can give us all things, than the fact, that the ethereal spirit perpetuates the vital union of the soul and body in close fellowship, without our exertion, and the healthgiving use of food does not fail until the last day of death has arrived.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Tertullian

Of Patience (220)

We who carry about our very soul, our very body, exposed in this world to injury from all, and exhibit patience under that injury; shall we be hurt at the loss of less important things? Far from a servant of Christ be such a defilement as that the patience which has been prepared for greater temptations should forsake him in frivolous ones.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

We have in these verses—a collection of striking arguments against over-anxiety about the things of this world. At first sight they may seem to some minds simple and common. But the more they are pondered—the more weighty will they appear. An abiding recollection of them would save many Christians an immense amount of trouble. Christ bids us consider the RAVENS. "They neither sow nor reap. They have neither storehouse nor barn. But God feeds them."

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἡ	hē	The	G3588 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ψυχὴ	psuchē	life	G5590 →
πλεῖόν	pleion	more	G4119 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
τῆς	tēs	than the	G3588 →
τροφῆς,	trophēs	food,	G5160 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
σῶμα	sōma	body	G4983 →
τοῦ	tou	than the	G3588 →
ἐνδύματος.	endumatos	clothing.	G1742 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 1:12
“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the…
leads to
- Luke 22:31–32
  Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Corinthians 12:7
  or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.
- John 3:35–36
  The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.
Through
Proverbs 13:8
Riches may ransom a man’s life, but a poor man hears no threat.
leads to
- Matthew 16:26
  What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Peter 1:18–19
  For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
Through
Job 2:6
“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 10:13
  No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Job 2:4
“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
leads to
- Philippians 3:8–10
  More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may…
- Matthew 6:25
  Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more…

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Luke