Luke 12:23
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
KJV
ἡ ψυχὴ πλεῖόν ἐστιν τῆς τροφῆς καὶ τὸ σῶμα τοῦ ἐνδύματος.
Greek NT
Anima plus est quam esca, et corpus plus quam vestimentum.
Vulgate
For the life is more than the food, and the body than the raiment.
ASV
The life is more than the meat: and the body is more than the raiment.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
8 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
σῶμα
soma
noun · 141×
τροφή
trophe
noun · 16×
ψυχή
psuche
noun · 102×
ἔνδυμα
enduma
noun · 8×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: γὰρ | WH/Treg/NIV: γὰρ
- γὰρ — SBLGNT
- γὰρ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Acts 27:18 — And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
- Job 1:12 — And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
- Job 2:4 — And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
- Job 2:6 — And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
- Prov 13:8 — The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.