◄ Luke 12:25 ►
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Good News Translation
Can any of you live a bit longer by worrying about it?

New Revised Standard Version
And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?

Contemporary English Version
Can worry make you live longer?

New American Bible
Can any of you by worrying add a moment to your life-span?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Luke 19:3 And he sought to see Jesus who he was: and he could not for the crowd, because he was low of stature.

Matthew 5:36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Matthew 6:27 And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit?

Context
Do Not Worry
…24Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they? 25And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?…
Cross References
Psalm 39:5
Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

Matthew 6:27
And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit?

Luke 12:26
If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?

Luke 12:24
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