Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Can any of you add a single hour to the length of your life by worrying?
A Conservative Version
And which man of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his life span?
American Standard Version
And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?
Amplified
An Understandable Version
And which one of you can worry yourself into living a single day longer?
Anderson New Testament
Which of you, by his anxiety, can add one span to his life?
Bible in Basic English
And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself a cubit taller?
Common New Testament
Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his span of life?
Daniel Mace New Testament
who by all his sollicitude can add one moment to his age?
Darby Translation
But which of you by carefulness can add to his growth one cubit?
Godbey New Testament
And which one of you being solicitous is able to add one moment to his existence?
Goodspeed New Testament
But which of you with all his worry can add a single hour to his life?
John Wesley New Testament
Are ye not much better than they? And which of you by taking thought can add to his age the smallest measure?
Julia Smith Translation
Which of you, being anxious, can add one cubit to his size?
King James 2000
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And who among you, [by] being anxious, is able to add one hour to his life span?
Modern King James verseion
Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Which of you, though he took thought therefore, could put one cubit unto his stature?
Moffatt New Testament
Which of you can add an ell to his height by troubling about it?
Montgomery New Testament
"Which one of you by being anxious is able to add even one cubit to his stature?
NET Bible
And which of you by worrying can add even one hour to his life?
New Heart English Bible
"And which of you, by being anxious, can add one cubit to his height?
Noyes New Testament
But who of you by anxious thought can add to his life one cubit?
Sawyer New Testament
Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?
The Emphasized Bible
But who from among you, being anxious, can add to his stature one cubit?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But which of you, by his cares, can add one cubit to his stature?
Twentieth Century New Testament
But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong his life a single moment?
Webster
Which of you by anxious care can add one cubit to his stature?
Weymouth New Testament
Which of you by being over-anxious can add a single foot to his height?
Williams New Testament
But which of you by worrying can add a single minute to his life?
World English Bible
"Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
Worrell New Testament
And who of you, by being anxious, can add to his stature one cubit?
Worsley New Testament
And which of you by all his thought can add one cubit to his stature?
Youngs Literal Translation
'And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?
Themes
Adoption » Should produce » Child-like confidence in God
Anxiety » Why you should not be anxious
Cubit » Who can add to his height
the Gifts of God » Temporal » Food and raiment
human Limitations » Man subject to » No power to add a stature
Man » Limitations of » No power to add a stature
Select readings » God's providence
Righteousness » They who walk in and follow » Are abundantly provided for
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 6:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
God And Possessions
26
Look at the birds of the sky, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you worth more than they?
27
Phrases
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:14
I know that whatever God does it will be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it. God does it in order that men should reverence (respect) him.
Matthew 5:36
And do not promise by your head, for you cannot even control the hair on your head.
Luke 12:25-26
Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to your life?
Psalm 39:5-6
Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.
1 Corinthians 12:18
Has God set the members of the body, every one of them, just as it pleased him?