Luke 12:26 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 12:26

So if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why are ye anxious concerning the rest?

KJV

If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

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Commentary

1 voice

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Luke (1107)

And if you cannot add even the least thing, why do you worry about the rest? It is obvious that just as God grants growth in stature, so too will He provide the rest.

The record, by era

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

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
εἰ	ei	If	G1487 →
οὖν	oun	then	G3767 →
οὐδὲ	oude	not even	G3761 →
ἐλάχιστον	elachiston	[the] least	G1646 →
δύνασθε,	dunasthe	you are able [to do],	G1410 →
τί	ti	why	G5101 →
περὶ	peri	about	G4012 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
λοιπῶν	loipōn	rest	G3062 →
μεριμνᾶτε;¶	merimnate	are you anxious?	G3309 →

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
1 Peter 5:7
Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
leads to
- Psalms 55:22
  Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
- Philippians 4:6
  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
- Psalms 37:5
  Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
- Psalms 56:3–4
  When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.
- Matthew 6:25–26
  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…
Through
Ecclesiastes 7:13
Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 1:15
  What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
- Job 12:14
  What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
Through
Psalms 39:6
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
leads to
- Luke 12:20–21
  But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

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