Matthew 6:27
Good News Translation
Can any of you live a bit longer by worrying about it?

New Revised Standard Version
And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?

Contemporary English Version
Can worry make you live longer?

New American Bible
Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit?

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Matthew 5:36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Psalm 39:6 Surely man passeth as an image: yea, and he is disquieted in vain. He storeth up: and he knoweth not for whom he shall gather these things.

Ecclesiastes 3:14 I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.

Luke 12:25,26 And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? . . .

1 Corinthians 12:18 But now God hath set the members, every one of them, in the body as it hath pleased him.

Context
Do Not Worry
26Behold 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? 27And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit? 28And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin.…
Cross References
Psalm 39:5
Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

Matthew 6:25
Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Matthew 6:28
And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin.

Matthew 6:31
Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed?

Matthew 6:34
Be not therefore solicitous for to morrow; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

Luke 10:41
And the Lord answering, said to her: Martha, Martha, thou art careful and art troubled about many things:

Luke 12:11
And when they shall bring you into the synagogues and to magistrates and powers, be not solicitous how or what you shall answer, or what you shall say.

Luke 12:22
And he said to his disciples: Therefore I say to you: Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on.

Luke 12:25
And which of you by taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Philippians 4:6
Be nothing solicitous: but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.

1 Peter 5:7
Casting all your care upon him, for he hath care of you.

Matthew 6:26
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