Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
because life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Holman Bible
A Conservative Version
For the life is more than the food, and the body, the clothing.
American Standard Version
For the life is more than the food, and the body than the raiment.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
For there are more important things in life than food, and [more important things about] your body than the clothing [you wear].
Anderson New Testament
Life is a greater gift than food, and the body, than clothing.
Bible in Basic English
Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?
Common New Testament
For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.
Daniel Mace New Testament
the life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Darby Translation
The life is more than food, and the body than raiment.
Godbey New Testament
The soul is more than food, and the body more than raiment.
Goodspeed New Testament
Life is more important than food, and the body than clothes.
John Wesley New Testament
The life is more than meat, and the body than raiment.
Julia Smith Translation
The soul is more than food, and the body than clothing.
King James 2000
The life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For life is more than food, and the body [more than] clothing.
Modern King James verseion
Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Moffatt New Testament
life is something more than food, and the body is something more than clothes.
Montgomery New Testament
"For the life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.
NET Bible
For there is more to life than food, and more to the body than clothing.
New Heart English Bible
Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Noyes New Testament
The life is more than its food, and the body than its raiment.
Sawyer New Testament
Is not the soul more than the food, and the body than the clothing?
The Emphasized Bible
For, the life, is more, than the food, and, the body, than, the clothing.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
The life is more than food, and the body than raiment.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For life is more than food, and the body than its clothes.
Webster
The life is more than food, and the body is more than raiment.
Weymouth New Testament
For life is a greater gift than food, and the body is a greater gift than clothing.
Williams New Testament
Your life is worth more than food, and your body more than clothes.
World English Bible
Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Worrell New Testament
for the soul is more than the food; and the body, than the clothing.
Worsley New Testament
the life is more than food, and the body than raiment.
Youngs Literal Translation
the life is more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing.
Themes
Anxiety » Why you should not be anxious
Doubt » Not being doubtfully minded
Seeking God » None, by nature, are found to be engaged in
Spiritual » Transformation characters transformed by conversion » Treasures
Topics
Interlinear
Pleion
References
Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 12:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Anxiety
22 Then Jesus told his disciples, "That's why I'm telling you to stop worrying about your life what you will eat or about your body what you will wear, 23 because life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 Consider the crows. They don't plant or harvest, they don't even have a storeroom or barn, yet God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
Names
Cross References
Genesis 19:17
Then one of them said, "Flee for your lives! Don't look back or stop anywhere on the plain. Escape to the hills, or you'll be swept away!"
Job 1:12
Then the LORD told Satan, "Very well then, everything he owns is under your control, only you may not extend your hand against him." So Satan left the LORD's presence.
Job 2:4
Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! The man will give up everything that he owns in exchange for his health.
Job 2:6
Then the LORD told Satan, "Very well then, he is under your control. Just preserve his life."
Proverbs 13:8
The life of a wealthy man may be held for ransom, but whoever is poor receives no threats.
Acts 27:18-19
The next day, because we were being tossed so violently by the storm, they began to throw the cargo overboard.
Acts 27:38
After they had eaten all they wanted, they began to lighten the ship by dumping its cargo of wheat into the sea.