Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The life is more than meat, and the body is more 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.
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.
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 spake unto his disciples, "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat: Neither for your body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which neither have storehouse nor barn, and yet God feedeth them. How much are ye better then the fowls?
Names
Cross References
Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them out, they said, "Save thy life and look not behind thee, neither tarry thou in any place of the country, but save thyself in the mountain, lest thou perish."
Job 1:12
And the LORD said unto Satan, "Lo, all that he hath, be in thy power: only upon himself see that thou lay not thine hand." Then went Satan forth from the LORD.
Job 2:4
Satan answered the LORD, and said, "Skin for skin? Yea, a man will give all that ever he hath, for his life.
Job 2:6
Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Lo, there hast thou him in thy power, but spare his life."
Proverbs 13:8
With goods every man delivereth his life; and the poor will not be reproved.
Acts 27:18-19
The next day when we were tossed with an exceeding tempest, they lightened the ship,
Acts 27:38
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and cast out the wheat into the sea.