Luke 12:7
But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
KJV
ἀλλὰ καὶ αἱ τρίχες τῆς κεφαλῆς ὑμῶν πᾶσαι ἠρίθμηνται. μὴ φοβεῖσθε· πολλῶν στρουθίων διαφέρετε.
Greek NT
sed et capilli capitis vestri omnes numerati sunt. Nolite ergo timere : multis passeribus pluris estis vos.
Vulgate
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
ASV
Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- μὴ — SBLGNT
- μὴ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + οὖν — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§342The hierarchy of creatures is expressed by the order of the "six days", from the less perfect to the more perfect. God loves all his creatures209 and takes care of each one, even the sparrow. Nevertheless, Jesus said: "You are of more value than many sparrows", or again: "of how much more value is a man than a sheep!"210
Chapter 19.—That All Bodily Blemishes Which Mar Human Beauty in This Life Shall Be Removed in the Resurrection, the Natural Substance of the Body Remaining, But the Quality and Quantity of It Being Altered So as to Produce Beauty. What am I to say now about the hair and nails? Once it is understood that no part of the body shall so perish as to produce deformity in the body, it…
Cross-references
- 1Sam 14:45 — And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath
- 2Sam 14:11 — Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth,
- Acts 27:34 — Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
- Acts 27:34 — Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
- Isa 43:3 — For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
- Luke 12:24 — Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
- Luke 21:18 — But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
- Luke 21:18 — But there shall not an hair of your head perish.
- Matt 6:26 — Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
- Matt 10:30 — But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
- Matt 10:30 — But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
- Ps 8:6 — Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: