“Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assaria coins? Not one of them is forgotten by God.
Parallel translations
- KJV Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
- BSB Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
- NKJV “Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God.
- NASB Are five sparrows not sold for two assaria? And yet not one of them has gone unnoticed in the sight of God.
- NLT “What is the price of five sparrows—two copper coins? Yet God does not forget a single one of them.
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Cross-references · 7
- Luke 12:24Consider the ravens: they don’t sow, they don’t reap, they have no warehouse or barn, and God feeds them. How much more valuable are you than birds!
- Ps 145:15–16The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.
- Ps 147:9He provides food for the livestock, and for the young ravens when they call.
- Matt 10:29“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,
- Ps 50:10–11For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
- Ps 113:5–6Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,
- Luke 12:27Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
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