Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
The soul is more than food, and the body than clothing.
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.
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.
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, Therefore I say to you, Have no anxiety for your soul, what ye eat; nor for the body what ye put on. 23 The soul is more than food, and the body than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens: for they sow not neither do they reap; to them there is not store-house nor store; and God nourishes them: how much more have ye preeminence of the fowls?
Names
Cross References
Genesis 19:17
And it shall be when having brought them forth without, he will say, Escape for thy life; thou shalt not look behind thee, and thou shalt not stay in all the circuit: escape to the mountain, lest thou shalt be destoyed.
Job 1:12
And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold, all that is to him in thy hand: only upon him thou shalt not send. forth thy hand. And the adversary will go forth from the face of Jehovah.
Job 2:4
And the adversary will answer Jehovah and say, Skin for skin, and all which is to a man he will give for his soul.
Job 2:6
And Jehovah will say to the adversary, Behold him in thy hand, but watch his soul
Proverbs 13:8
The expiating of a man's soul is his riches: and the poor will not hear rebuke.
Acts 27:18-19
And we being exceedingly tempest tossed, the following day they made a casting of the cargo overboard;
Acts 27:38
And satisfied with food, they lightened the ship, casting out the wheat into the sea.