Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
For life is a greater gift than food, and the body is a greater gift 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.
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.
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 turning to His disciples He said, "For this reason I say to you, 'Dismiss all anxious care for your lives, inquiring what you are to eat, and for your bodies, what you are to put on.' 23 For life is a greater gift than food, and the body is a greater gift than clothing. 24 Observe the ravens. They neither sow nor reap, and have neither store-chamber nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How far more precious are you than the birds!
Names
Cross References
Acts 27:18-19
But, as the storm was still violent, the next day they began to lighten the ship;
Acts 27:38
After eating a hearty meal they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat overboard.