Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
The life is more than food, and the body than raiment.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
because life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.
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.
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 And he said to his disciples, For this cause I say unto you, Be not careful for life, what ye shall eat, nor for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than food, and the body than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens, that they sow not nor reap; which have neither storehouse nor granary; and God feeds them. How much better are ye than the birds?
Names
Cross References
Genesis 19:17
And it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, Escape for thy life: look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain: escape to the mountain, lest thou perish.
Job 1:12
And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy hand; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah.
Job 2:4
And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life;
Job 2:6
And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.
Proverbs 13:8
The ransom of a man's life is his riches; but the indigent heareth not rebuke.
Acts 27:18-19
But the storm being extremely violent on us, on the next day they threw cargo overboard,
Acts 27:38
And having satisfied themselves with food, they lightened the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea.