If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
Parallel translations
- KJV If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?
- BSB So if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest?
- NKJV If you then are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest?
- NASB Therefore if you cannot do even a very little thing, why do you worry about the other things?
- NLT And if worry can’t accomplish a little thing like that, what’s the use of worrying over bigger things?
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Cross-references · 4
- 1 Pet 5:7casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
- Ps 39:6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
- Eccl 7:13Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
- Luke 12:29Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
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