Luke 12:26
New International Version
Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?

New Living Translation
And if worry can’t accomplish a little thing like that, what’s the use of worrying over bigger things?

English Standard Version
If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?

Berean Standard Bible
So if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest?

Berean Literal Bible
If, then, you cannot even do the least, why are you anxious about the rest?

King James Bible
If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

New King James Version
If you then are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest?

New American Standard Bible
Therefore if you cannot do even a very little thing, why do you worry about the other things?

NASB 1995
“If then you cannot do even a very little thing, why do you worry about other matters?

NASB 1977
“If then you cannot do even a very little thing, why are you anxious about other matters?

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, if you cannot do even a very little thing, why do you worry about other matters?

Amplified Bible
So if you are not even able to do a very little thing [such as that], why are you worried about the rest?

Christian Standard Bible
If then you’re not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If then you’re not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest?

American Standard Version
If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why are ye anxious concerning the rest?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“But if you cannot do the small thing, why do you take pains over the rest?”

Contemporary English Version
If you don't have power over small things, why worry about everything else?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?

English Revised Version
If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why are ye anxious concerning the rest?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you can't do a small thing like that, why worry about other things?

Good News Translation
If you can't manage even such a small thing, why worry about the other things?

International Standard Version
So if you can't do a small thing like that, why worry about other things?

Literal Standard Version
If, then, you are not able for the least—why are you anxious for the rest?

Majority Standard Bible
So if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest?

New American Bible
If even the smallest things are beyond your control, why are you anxious about the rest?

NET Bible
So if you cannot do such a very little thing as this, why do you worry about the rest?

New Revised Standard Version
If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest?

New Heart English Bible
If then you are not able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

Webster's Bible Translation
If ye then are not able to do that thing which is least, why are ye anxious for the rest?

Weymouth New Testament
If then you are unable to do even a very little thing, why be over-anxious about other matters?

World English Bible
If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?

Young's Literal Translation
If, then, ye are not able for the least -- why for the rest are ye anxious?

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Do Not Worry
25Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? 26So if you cannot do such a small thing, why do you worry about the rest? 27Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.…

Cross References
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Luke 12:25
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

Luke 12:27
Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.


Treasury of Scripture

If you then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take you thought for the rest?

why.

Luke 12:29
And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Ecclesiastes 7:13
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

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Luke 12
1. Jesus preaches to his apostles to avoid hypocrisy
13. and warns against covetousness, by the parable of the man who set up greater barns.
22. We must not worry about earthly things,
31. but seek the kingdom of God;
33. give alms;
35. be ready at a knock to open to our Lord whensoever he comes.
41. Jesus' disciples are to see to their charges,
49. and look for persecution.
54. The people must take this time of grace;
57. because it is a fearful thing to die without reconciliation.














(26) If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least.--The words are peculiar to St. Luke's report. If no amount of anxious care can add one cubit to our stature or the measure of our days (see Notes on Matthew 6:27), how much less can we control all the myriad contingencies upon which the happiness of the future may depend!



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
So
οὖν (oun)
Conjunction
Strong's 3767: Therefore, then. Apparently a primary word; certainly, or accordingly.

if
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

you cannot [do]
δύνασθε (dynasthe)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1410: (a) I am powerful, have (the) power, (b) I am able, I can. Of uncertain affinity; to be able or possible.

such a small thing,
ἐλάχιστον (elachiston)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular - Superlative
Strong's 1646: Superlative of elachus; used as equivalent to mikros; least.

why
τί (ti)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

do you worry
μεριμνᾶτε (merimnate)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 3309: To be over-anxious; with acc: To be anxious about, distracted; I care for. From merimna; to be anxious about.

about
περὶ (peri)
Preposition
Strong's 4012: From the base of peran; properly, through, i.e. Around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time.

the
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

rest?
λοιπῶν (loipōn)
Adjective - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 3062: Left, left behind, the remainder, the rest, the others. Masculine plural of a derivative of leipo; remaining ones.


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