Luke 12:24
Good News Translation
Look at the crows: they don't plant seeds or gather a harvest; they don't have storage rooms or barns; God feeds them! You are worth so much more than birds!

New Revised Standard Version
Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!

Contemporary English Version
Look at the crows! They don't plant or harvest, and they don't have storehouses or barns. But God takes care of them. You are much more important than any birds.

New American Bible
Notice the ravens: they do not sow or reap; they have neither storehouse nor barn, yet God feeds them. How much more important are you than birds!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they?

the ravens.

1 Kings 17:1-6 And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad, said to Achab: As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words of my mouth. . . .

Job 38:41 Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?

Psalm 145:15,16 The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord: and thou givest them meat in due season. . . .

Psalm 147:9 Who giveth to beasts their food: and to the young ravens that call upon him.

Mark 6:26 And the king was struck sad. Yet because of his oath, and because of them that were with him at table, he would not displease her:

how.

Luke 12:7,30-32 Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows. . . .

Job 35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.

Matthew 10:31 Fear not therefore: better are you than many sparrows.

Context
Do Not Worry
23The life is more than the meat: and the body is more than the raiment. 24Consider the ravens, for they sow not, neither do they reap, neither have they storehouse nor barn, and God feedeth them. How much are you more valuable than they? 25And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?…
Cross References
Job 38:41
Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?

Matthew 3:12
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

Matthew 6:26
Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they?

Luke 12:18
And he said: This will I do: I will pull down my barns and will build greater: and into them will I gather all things that are grown to me and my goods.

Luke 12:23
The life is more than the meat: and the body is more than the raiment.

Luke 12:23
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