Fear God Alone
Luke 12:7
In 9 translations
- BSB
- And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
- KJV
- But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
- WEB
- But the very hairs of your head are all counted. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
- ASV
- But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
- LSV
- but even the hairs of your head have all been numbered; therefore do not fear, you are of more value than many sparrows.
- YLT
- but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value.
- DBY
- But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore, ye are better than many sparrows.
- DRC
- Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.
- GNV
- Yea, and all the heares of your head are nombred: feare not therefore: yee are more of value then many sparowes.
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include οὖν (“therefore”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
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- SBLGNT: μὴ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read μὴ; Robinson–Pierpont add οὖν.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- ἀλλὰ καὶ αἱ τρίχες τῆς κεφαλῆς ὑμῶν πᾶσαι ἠρίθμηνται· μὴ φοβεῖσθε· πολλῶν στρουθίων διαφέρετε.
- RP2018
- Ἀλλὰ καὶ αἱ τρίχες τῆς κεφαλῆς ὑμῶν πᾶσαι ἠρίθμηνται. Μὴ οὖν φοβεῖσθε· πολλῶν στρουθίων διαφέρετε.
- TR-Boyd
- Ἀλλὰ καὶ αἱ τρίχες τῆς κεφαλῆς ὑμῶν πᾶσαι ἠρίθμηνται. Μὴ οὖν φοβεῖσθε· πολλῶν στρουθίων διαφέρετε.
- SCR1894
- αλλα και αι τριχες της κεφαλης υμων πασαι ηριθμηνται μη ουν φοβεισθε πολλων στρουθιων διαφερετε
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Cross-references most cited first
- Matthew 10:30–31And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
- Matthew 6:26Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
- Isaiah 43:3–4For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place. Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in…
- 2 Samuel 14:11“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair…
- Luke 21:18Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.
- Psalms 8:6You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:
- 1 Samuel 14:45But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God’s help he has…
- Acts 27:34So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”
- Matthew 12:12How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
- Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
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