Catholic Public Domain Version
"Therefore, if you are not capable, in what is so little, why be anxious about the rest? "
— Luke 12:26, Catholic Public Domain Version
“If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?”
“If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why are ye anxious concerning the rest? ”
“If then you aren't able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?”
“So if you cannot do such a very little thing as this, why do you worry about the rest?”
“If then ye be not able to do so much as the least thing, why are you solicitous for the rest?”
“If, then, you are not able to do even that which is least, why are you troubled about the rest?”
“If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?”
Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
Consider the ravens. For they neither sow nor reap; there is no storehouse or barn for them. And yet God pastures them. How much more are you, compared to them?
But which of you, by thinking, is able to add one cubit to his stature?
Therefore, if you are not capable, in what is so little, why be anxious about the rest?
Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither work nor weave. But I say to you, not even Solomon, in all his glory, was clothed like one of these.
Therefore, if God so clothes the grass, which is in the field today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, how much more you, O little in faith?
And so, do not choose to inquire as to what you will eat, or what you will drink. And do not choose to be lifted up on high.