Do Not Worry
Luke 12:26
In 9 translations
- BSB
- So if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest?
- KJV
- If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
- WEB
- If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
- ASV
- If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why are ye anxious concerning the rest?
- LSV
- If, then, you are not able for the least—why are you anxious for the rest?
- YLT
- If, then, ye are not able for the least — why for the rest are ye anxious?
- DBY
- If therefore ye cannot [do] even what is least, why are ye careful about the rest?
- DRC
- If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?
- GNV
- If yee then bee not able to doe the least thing, why take yee thought for the remnant?
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- NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read οὐδὲ (“not even”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read οὐτὲ (“nor”).
SBLGNT apparatus (1)
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- SBLGNT: οὐδὲ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read οὐδὲ; Robinson–Pierpont read οὐτὲ.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- εἰ οὖν οὐδὲ ἐλάχιστον δύνασθε, τί περὶ τῶν λοιπῶν μεριμνᾶτε;
- RP2018
- Εἰ οὖν οὔτε ἐλάχιστον δύνασθε, τί περὶ τῶν λοιπῶν μεριμνᾶτε;
- TR-Boyd
- Εἰ οὖν οὔτε ἐλάχιστον δύνασθε, τί περὶ τῶν λοιπῶν μεριμνᾶτε;
- SCR1894
- ει ουν ουτε ελαχιστον δυνασθε τι περι των λοιπων μεριμνατε
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Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Peter 5:7Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
- Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
- Luke 12:29And do not be concerned about what you will eat or drink. Do not worry about it.
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